Bathythrix thomsoni ( Kerrich, 1942 )

Watanabe, Kyohei, 2021, Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Study of the Japanese Phygadeuontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 17 New Species, Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 50, pp. 55-136 : 72-73

Bathythrix thomsoni ( Kerrich, 1942)

(New SJN: Thomson-mame-togari-himebachi)

( Figs 15A–C , 62C )

Thysiotorus thomsoni Kerrich, 1942: 56 .

Panargyrops aereus corsicator Aubert, 1961: 171 .

Description. See Sawoniewicz (1980).

Materials examined. JAPAN: KPM-NK 81673 , F, Niigata Pref., Sado Is., Kanaishinbo, Hakuundai-Mt .

Myoukenzan, 4. VIII. 2009, K. Watanabe leg.; KPM-NK 81674 , F, ditto , 10. IX. 2010; KPM-NK 81675 , F, Hyogo Pref., Kami Town, Niiya, Mikata kogen , 26. VI. – 18. VII. 2011, S. Fujie leg. (MsT).

Distribution. Japan * (Honshu); widely distributed in Palearctic region.

Bionomics. Unknown in Japan. Various hosts like as microlepidoptera and braconids have been recorded (see Yu et al., 2016).

Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Japan.

Figures

Fig. 15. Bathythrix thomsoni (Kerrich, 1942), KPM-NK 81675, female from Japan ― A, lateral habitus; B, head, frontal view; C, head, mesosoma, and metasoma, dorsal view.

Fig. 62. Bathythrix kuwanae Viereck, 1912 (A, KPM-NK 81718), Ba. margaretae Sawoniewicz, 1980 (B, KPM-NK 55017), Ba. thomsoni (Kerrich, 1942) (C, KPM-NK 81675), Diaglyptidea conformis (Gmelin, 1790) (D, KPM-NK 81645), Nipponaetes haeussleri (Uchida, 1933) (E, KPM-NK 81832), Acrolyta japonica sp. nov. (F, N, KPM-NK 54996, holotype), Acr. rufocincta (Gravenhorst, 1829) (G, KPM-NK 81732), Surculus japonicus sp. nov. (H, KPM-NK 81861, holotype), Isadelphus nigrus sp. nov. (I, KPM-NK 82003, holotype), Lochetica japonica sp. nov. (J, KPM-NK 81989, holotype), Megacara similis Sheng, 1999 (K, KPM-NK 81837), Gnotus chionops (Gravenhorst, 1829) (L, KPM-NK 82100), Gn. striatus (Uchida, 1930) (M, KPM-NK 82060), and Acr. flavicoxis Sheng & Sun, 2014 (O, KPM-NK 81837), females from Japan ― A–C, head, frontal view; D, E, head, lateral view; F–K, anterior margin of clypeus; L, M, mandible; N, O, basal part of antenna, lateral view.