Ismarus dorsiger (Haliday, 1831) New to China

Liu, Jing-xian, Chen, Hua-yan & Xu, Zai-fu, 2011, Notes on the genus Ismarus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) from China, ZooKeys 108, pp. 49-60 : 55-56

Ismarus dorsiger (Haliday, 1831) New to China Figs 13-16

Cinetus dorsiger Haliday, in Curtis 1831, British Entomology 3: 380

Betyla anomala Nees von Esenbeck 1834, Hymenopterorum ichneumonibus affinium monographiae, genera europaea et species illustrantes: 345. Synonymized by Foerster (1856).

Ismarus dorsiger : Haliday 1835, Entomological Magazine: 467. Generic transfer.

Ismarus neesii Foerster 1850, Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins de Preussischen Rheinlande Westfalens: 286. Synonymized by Haliday (1857).

Ismarus dorsiger (Haliday, 1831): Johnson 1992, Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 260.

Material examined.

9 females, CHINA: Yunnan, Yongshan County, Huanghua Town (28.00 ºN, 103.51 ºE), 1500 m, 2010.X.8, Wei Dong.

Biology.

Hyperparasitoid of Aphelopus sp. of Dryinidae (Jervis, 1979).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan); England; Ireland; Spain; Russia.

Comments.

All specimens of this species were collected from a field with Zanthoxylum bungeanum plants (Sapindales: Rutaceae) in Northeast Yunnan together with some specimens of Dryinidae and Ceraphronidae.