Methocha Latreille, 1804

Liao, Xiang-Ping, Guo, Yi, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2022, A new species of Methocha Latreille (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Methochinae) from China, with a key to the Chinese species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 92, pp. 229-240 : 229

Genus Methocha Latreille, 1804

Methocha Latreille, 1804, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. 24: 179. Type species: Mutilla articulata Latreille, 1792, by original·designation and monotypy.

Methoca (!)·Latreille, 1804, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. 13: 268.

Tengyra Latreille, 1809, Gen. Crust. Ins. 4: 115. Synonym of Methocha by Dalla Torre, 1897: 1. Type species: Tengyra sanvitali Latreille, 1809, by monotypy.

Spinolia A. Costa, 1858, Fauna Napoli Scol.: 21. Synonym of Methocha by Dalla Torre, 1897: 1. Type species: Spinolia italica Costa, 1858, by monotypy.

Dryinopsis Brues, 1910, Jour. New York Ent. Soc. 18: 16. Synonym of Methocha by Lin, 1966: 182. Type species: Dryinopsis simplicipes Brues, 1910, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Males winged and females wingless; antennal lobe developed (Fig. 3 ) in both sexes; eye setose (Figs 2 , 10 , 18 ) in both sexes; in female mid and hind tibia each with 1 spur, and hind tibial spur with a row of comb-like spines; in male mid and hind tibia each with 2 spurs, and one of the two spurs with a row of comb-like spines; fore-wing with 2 submarginal cells enclosed by tubular veins (Figs 1 , 9 , 17 ).

Figures

Figures 1 - 8. Methocha transcarinata sp. nov., holotype, ♂. 1 habitus (dorsal view) 2 head (frontal view) 3 head (lateral view) 4 head (dorsal view) 5 pronotum (dorsal view) 6 propodeum (dorsal view) 7 mesosoma (lateral view, anterior to right) 8 T 1 and T 2 (dorsal view).

Figures 9 - 16. Methocha cariniventris, ♂. 9 habitus (dorsal view) 10 head (frontal view) 11 head (lateral view) 12 head (dorsal view) 13 pronotum (dorsal view) 14 propodeum (dorsal view) 15 mesosoma (lateral view, anterior to the right) 16 T 1 and T 2 (dorsal view).

Figures 17 - 24. Methocha kandyensis, ♂. 17 habitus (dorsal view) 18 head (frontal view) 19 head (lateral view) 20 head (dorsal view) 21 pronotum (dorsal view) 22 propodeum (dorsal view) 23 mesosoma (lateral view, anterior to the right) 24 T 1 and T 2 (dorsal view).