Pachyprotasis qinlingica Wei, 1998

Zhong, Yihai & Wei, Meicai, 2012, A review of the Pachyprotasis pallidistigma species group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 3242, pp. 1-38 : 9-10

Pachyprotasis qinlingica Wei, 1998

( Figs 23, 24 , 51 , 68 , 81, 93, 109)

Pachyprotarsis [sic!] qinlingica Wei in Wei & Nie 1998: 165. [female], type locality: Luanchuan, (111°43ˏE, 33°43ˏN), Henan, China.

Material examined. Holotype: Ƥ, Luanchuan, Henan Province (111°43ʹE, 33°43ʹN), 15.07.1996, Jun Wen leg.; paratypes: Gansu Province: 2 Ƥ, Mt. Xiaolong, Tianshui (106°13ʹE, 34°32ʹN, alt. 1409 m), 0 7.07.2007, Meicai Wei, Gengyun Niu leg.; 5 3, Niangniangba River, Tianshui, (106°13ʹE, 34°32ʹN), 25– 31.05.2006, Yule Bai et. leg.; Henan Province: 3 Ƥ, Luanchuan (111°43ʹE, 33°43ʹN), 14– 15.07.1996, Jun Wen, Meicai Wei leg.; 2 Ƥ, Baotianman, Neixiang (111°51ʹE, 33°27ʹN, alt. 1300 m), 14, 17.07.1998, Maoling Sheng, Meicai Wei leg.; 1 Ƥ, Longyuwan, Luanchuan (111°43ʹE, 33°43ʹN, alt. 1300 m), 23.07.2002, Jigang Jiang leg.; 6 Ƥ, Mt. Baiyun, Songxian (111°59ʹE, 33°55ʹN, alt. 1500 m), 18– 24.07.2003, Minwen Liang, Yingke He leg.; 6 Ƥ, Longyuwan, Luanchuan (111°43ʹE, 33°43ʹN, alt. 1600–1800 m), 21.07.2004, Weixing Liu leg.; 3 Ƥ, Mt. Baiyun, Songxian (111°59ʹE, 33°55ʹN, alt. 1500–1600 m), 17– 18.07.2004, Shaobin Zhang, Weixing Liu leg.; Shaanxi Province: 1 Ƥ, Mt. Taibai (107°48ʹE, 34°00ʹN, alt. 1600–1800 m), 0 7.07.2005, Xun Zhu leg.; 1 Ƥ, Zhenan (109°09ʹE, 33°26ʹN, alt. 1300– 1600 m), 10.07.2005, Qing Yang leg.; 1 Ƥ, Qingfengxia, Taibaixian (107°23ʹE, 34°03ʹN, alt. 1473 m), 0 3.07.2008, Xiaoyu Jiang leg.; Ningxia Province: 1 Ƥ, Mt. Liupan, Jingyuan (106°18ʹE, 35°23ʹN, alt. 2300 m), 07.1964; Hunan Province: 1 Ƥ, Mt. Huping, Shimen (110°46ʹE, 29°55ʹN, alt. 1700 m), 0 3.06.2003, Yang Jiang leg.; Hubei Province: 1 Ƥ, Shennongjia, Xingshan (110°22ʹE, 31°35ʹN, alt. 1700 m), 24.07.2003, Jigang Jiang leg.

Distribution. China (Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Ningxia, Hunan, Hubei) ( Fig. 109 ).

Female ( Figs 23, 24 ): Body length 9–10.5 mm. Head muddy yellow, black are: apical half of frons continuing with ocellar area, upper part of hind orbit, upper part of occiput, antenna except ventral sides of pedicel and scape; dorsal part of body black, muddy yellow are: pronotum except median, tegula, a V-shaped spot on lateral sides of median mesoscutal lobe, a central butterfly-shaped spot and lateral margin on lateral mesoscutal lobe, mesoscutellum, posttergum, metascutellum, median part of metapostnotum, hind parts of all terga, ovipositor sheath except apex and dorsal margin; body ventrally muddy yellow. Legs muddy yellow, black are: a narrow stripe each on dorsal part of four legs from apex of femur to claw, a broad inner band on apical 3/7 of metafemur, dorsal and apex of metatibia, metatarsus except ventral side on base of each tarsomere. Wings pale infuscate, subhyaline, fore wing vein C, R1, 2r and stigma pale brown, other veins black. Punctures on dorsal part of head rather large, shallow and scattered, microsculpture dense, interspaces distinctly shiny; upper part of mesepisternum with a few large and shallow punctures, punctures on other part minute, shallow, interspaces strongly shiny; disc of mesoscutellum polished, without punctures, lateral part with scattered and small punctures, interspaces slightly shiny; posttergum polished, punctures absent, microsculpture indistinct, interspaces strongly shiny. Malar space 2 times diameter of median ocellus; median fovea ditch-like, widely and shallowly reaching to median ocellus; postocellar area slightly elevated, 1.5 times as broad as long ( Figs 51 , 68 ); antenna shorter than combined length of thorax and abdomen, flagellomere 1 about 1.1 times length of flagellomere 2; mesoscutellum elevated, with acute lateral ridge. Ovipositor sheath distinctly shorter than hind tarsomere 1 in lateral view, valvula 3 round at apex and distinctly longer than valvifer 2 in lateral view. Lancet with 23 serrulae (Fig. 81), base of each serrula oblique, middle serrulae each with 2 basal denticles and 10–13 distal denticles (Fig. 93).

Male. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 109. Geographical distribution of species of P. pallidistigma group in China (3)

FIGURES 21 – 24. Dorsal and lateral view: 21 – 22. P. pallidistigma, male, specimen from Gansu Province; 23 – 24. P. qinlingica, female, holotype

FIGURES 46 – 52. Face in front view: 46. P. nigronotata, male; 47. P. pallens, female; 48. P. pallens, male; 49. P. pallidistigma, female; 50. P. pallidistigma, male; 51. P. qinlingica, female; 52. P. scalaris, female

FIGURES 68 – 73. Head in dorsal view: 68. P. qinlingica, female; 69. P. scalaris, female; 70. P. shennongjiai, female; 71. P. sichuanensis, female; 72. P. zhoui, female; 73. P. zhoui, male