Lochetica Kriechbaumer, 1892

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 : 110

Genus Lochetica Kriechbaumer, 1892

Lochetica Kriechbaumer, 1892: 340 . Type: Phygadeuon pimplarius Thomson, 1884 (= Cecidonomus westoni Bridgman, 1880 ). Monobasic.

A single species, Lo. westoni ( Bridgman, 1880) , has been recorded from Japan. In this study, I record a new species, Lo. japonica sp. nov., from Japan. Japanese species can be distinguished by the following key.

Key to Japanese species of the genus Lochetica (♀)

1. Legs reddish brown. Median dorsal carina of T I present. Ovipositor sheath ca. 3.0 times as long as hind tibia. ............................................ Lo. westoni ( Bridgman, 1880)

-. Legs largely blackish brown to black ( Fig. 47A ). Median dorsal carina of T I absent. Ovipositor sheath 2.3–2.38 times as long as hind tibia. ........................................................... Lo. japonica sp. nov.

Figures

Fig.47.Lochetica japonica sp. nov., KPM-NK 81989,holotype, female ―A, lateral habitus; B, head, frontal view; C, head, dorsal view; D, head, mesosoma, and metasoma,dorsal view; E, head and mesosoma, lateral view; F, wings; G, propodeum, dorsal view; H, metasoma, dorsal view.