Homoporus subniger ( Walker, 1835 )

Xiao, Hui, Zhang, Yan-Zhou, Huang, Da-Wei & Polaszek, Andrew, 2004, A Revision Of Homoporus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) Of China, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1), pp. 59-65 : 64

Homoporus subniger ( Walker, 1835)

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Pteromalus subniger Walker, 1835: 96 ; Lectotype females, designated by Graham in 1968, NHM No. 2751 [Examined].

Pteromalus chalcomelas Walker, 1836: 476 . Synonymised by Graham, 1969: 451.

Homoporus (Phaenacrinodes) kurdjumovi Szelényi, 1956: 179-180 .

Homoporus danuvianus Delucchi, 1957: 418 . Synonymised by Graham, 1969: 451.

Homoporus subniger (Walker) - Graham, 1969: 451-452; Boucek ˇ, 1970: 65.

Material examined. – Lectotype - females, NHM, notes: stood under this name in old NHM coll. C. Waterhouse Pteromalus subniger Walker.

Others – 1 female, NHM, WALES: Cenarth , 22 Jun.1977, coll. J.S. Noyes & Z. Boucek ˇ, 1977-308, Det. Boucekˇ 1980 ; 1 male, NHM, ENGLAND: Dungeness , Kent, 19.Sep.1971, coll. Boucek ˇ, Det. Boucek ˇ, 1980; 1 female, IZCAS: Yunnan, Jingdong , 3 May.1985, coll. Liao Ding-Xi .

Host(s). – Graham (1969) recorded H. subniger from stems of Centaurea scabiosa L.( Asteraceae ) (host probably Cynipidae : Phanacis centaureae Förster ); Dzhanokmen (1978) recorded the hosts as Phanacis centaureae Förster , P. papaveris (Kieffer) ( Diptera : Cecidomyiidae ). Other host records include Apion sp ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ) ( Hopkins, 1984), Anacampsoides sp. ( Lepidoptera : Glyphipterigidae ) (Abdullah, Dawah & Jervis, 1989), and Cynipidae in the stems of Papaver , Centaurea and Verbascum ( Graham, 1969) .

Distribution. – CHINA (Yunnan); widely distributed in the Palaearctic.

Figures

Figs. 1-13. 1, Homoporus apharetus (Walker), female: antenna. 2, Homoporus arestor (Walker), male: antenna. 3, Homoporus fulviventris (Walker), female: antenna. 4-5, Homoporus japonicus Ashmead. female: 4, face in front view; 5, antenna. 6-7, Homoporus luniger (Nees), female: 6, face in front view; 7, antenna. 8, Homoporus pulchripes Erdös, female: antenna. 9-11, Homoporus sinensis, new species 9- 10 female: 9, face in front view; 10, antenna; 11 male, gaster. 12-13, Homoporus subniger (Walker), female: 12, antenna; 13, gaster.