Aulacus striatus Jurine, 1807

Chen, Hua-yan, Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Xu, Zai-fu, 2016, A revision of the Chinese Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea), ZooKeys 587, pp. 77-124 : 84-85

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Aulacidae

Aulacus striatus Jurine, 1807 Fig. 122

Aulacus striatus Jurine, 1807: 89-90.

Aulacus striatus Jurine: Sun and Sheng 2007b: 124; Turrisi et al. 2009: 56; Broad and Livermore 2014: 2.

Material examined.

No available material from China for this study.

Diagnosis.

Antenna entirely blackish-brown; femora, tibiae and tarsi extensively reddish-orange; metasoma extensively reddish-orange; vertex shining, irregularly, coarsely and deeply punctured, sometimes with very fine carinulae; propodeum weakly declivous; ovipositor 0.7-0.8 × forewing length.

Distribution.

China (Inner Mongolia) ( Sun and Sheng 2007b); Europe ( Smith 2001; Broad and Livermore 2014).

Biology.

Collected in August ( Sun and Sheng 2007b). Host not known.

Remarks.

The diagnosis is based on European specimens. Unfortunately, we were unable to examine Sun & Sheng’s specimens. Therefore, the status of this species in China is unclear to us.