Vulgichneumon takagii (Uchida, 1956)

(Figs 80–83)

Material. [ Japan] Kagoshima Pref.: Amami City, Naze, Chuo-rindo, 250–300 m alt., 28.2022°N 129.2629°E, 1 ♀ 14. VII. 2014, S. Shimizu leg. (Kanagawa).

Description. Female. Body length 7.5 mm.

Head. Flagellum with 28 flagellomeres, stout and almost filiform; 1 st flagellomere 1.2–1.3× as long as wide, 3 rd flagellomere square, widest flagellomeres 1.5× as wide as long. Temple slightly and roundly narrowed behind eye. OED 0.9× ocellar diameter. Frons and face densely punctate, shining. Clypeus with sparse punctures in apical half. MI 0.6. Genal carina slightly sinusoid and reaching hypostomal carina close to mandibular base.

Mesosoma. Scutellum slightly elevated, longer than wide, with sparse punctures and lateral carina in basal 0.3. Area superomedia heart-shaped, about as long as wide, costula reaching its middle. Hind coxa densely punctate, without scopa. Hind femur densely punctate, 3.0× as long as wide. External surface of hind tibia without denticular spines.

Metasoma. Postpetiole without latero-median carina, sparsely punctate medially, densely punctate laterally. Gastrocoelus obsolete. Thyridium small, close to frontal margin of 2 nd tergite, transverse, 0.3×as wide as interval between thyridia.

Color. Black. Flagellomeres 5–13 ivory dorsally. Palps and spot of frontal orbit opposite to lateral ocellus ivory. 1 st to 3 rd tergites red, petiole infuscate basally. Following tergites black, 6 th and 7 th tergites ivory dorsally. Coxae and trochanters black, hind trochantellus red; legs otherwise red; hind femur and hind tibia narrowly infuscate apically; all tarsi blackish. Wings slightly infuscate; pterostigma brown.

Distribution. Japan (Amamioshima Isl.).