Pristocera formosana Miwa and Sonan, 1935

Lim, Jongok, Terayama, Mamoru, Koh, Sanghyun, Lee, Jongwook & Lee, Seunghwan, 2011, A taxonomic review of the subfamily Pristocerinae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea: Bethylidae) from Korea with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Natural History 45 (7 - 8), pp. 435-460 : 449-453

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2010.534191
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scientific name	Pristocera formosana Miwa and Sonan, 1935
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( Figures 5A–J View Figure 5 , 6A–J View Figure 6 , Table 3) Pristocera formosana Miwa and Sonan 1935 , Taiwan Hakub Gakk Kaiho [Trans Nat Hist Soc Formosa]. 25:91.

Specimens examined

[ Korea] (CALS SNU): 1 male, Geyang-dong , Incheon-si, South Korea, 20 August 1999, S.I. Kim leg. ; 1 male, ditto, 14.viii.2001, S.Y. Oh leg. ; 1 male, Kyoesan-gun , CB, South Korea, 19 August 2000, S.B. Jang leg. ; 1 male, Majeong-ri , Buk-myeon, Jeongeub-si, JB, South Korea, 12–19 July 2005, MT, J.W. Park leg. ; 1 male, Dapcheonri , Ibanseong-myeon, Jinju-si, GN, South Korea, 12–26 August 2005, MT, B.K. Ahn leg. ; 1 male, Pungsan-ri , Dado-myeon, Naju-si, JN, South Korea, 16–30 August 2005, MT, S.B. Yu leg. ; 1 male, ditto, 30 August–9 September 2005, MT, S.B. Yu leg. ; 1 male, Jinae-ri , Dong-myeon, Chuncheon-si, GW, South Korea, 13–20 September 2005, S.J. Jang leg. ; 1 male, ditto, 11–18 August 2006, MT, S.J. Jang leg. ; 1 male, Daejeon Univ. , Yongwoon-dong , Dong-gu, Daejeon-si, South Korea, 15 August– 30 September 2006, MT, J.W. Lee leg. ; 1 male, ditto, 21 July–September 2006, MT, J.W. Lee leg. ; 1 male, Changchon-ri , Danseong-myeon, Sancheong-gun, GN, South Korea, GPS N35 ◦ 15’47.2”, E127 ◦ 54’24.8”, altitude 105 m, 11 August 2008, S.W. Park leg. GoogleMaps ; 1 female, Yongjusa , Annyeong-ri , Taean-eub, Hwaseong-si, GG, South Korea, 22–29 August 2005, MT, Y.D. Kwon leg. ; 1 female, ditto, 29 August–5 September 2005, MT, Y.D. Kwon leg. ; 4 females, Donam-ri , Banpo-myeon, Gongju-si, CN, South Korea, 30 August–6 September 2005, MT, Y.T. Kim leg. ; 1 female, ditto, 6–13 September 2005, MT, Y.T. Kim leg. ; 2 females, Majeong-ri , Buk-myeon, Jeongeub-si, JB, South Korea, 12–19 July 2005, MT, J.W. Park leg. ; 2 females, ditto, 9–16 August 2005, MT, J.W. Park leg. ; 1 female, ditto, 16–23 August 2005, MT, J.W. Park leg. ; 2 females, ditto, 26–30 August 2005, MT, J.W. Park leg. ; 1 female, ditto, 30 August–6 September 2005, MT, J.W. Park leg. ; 2 females, ditto, 6–20 September 2005, MT, J.W. Park leg. ; 2 females, Namsa-ri , Hyeongok-myeon, Kyeongju-si, GB, South Korea, 2–8 September 2005, MT, J.T. Mun leg. ; 1 female, Dapcheon-ri , Ibanseong-myeon, Jinjusi, GN, South Korea, 12–26 September 2005, MT, B.K. Ahn leg. ; [ Japan] ( NMNS): 1 male, 1 female, Suigen, Keikido, Chosen, 7 September 1923, Sato leg.

Redescription (male)

Colour. Body dark testaceous to black. Head: black except mandible, maxillary palpi and labial palpi testaceous; antenna dark testaceous. Mesosoma : dark testaceous; forewing hyaline, wing veins and legs dark testaceous. Metasoma: dark testaceous.

Morphology. Body ( Figure 5A View Figure 5 ) 9.21 mm long.

Head ( Figure 5B View Figure 5 ): 1.0 × as long as wide with convex posterior margin and posterolateral margin broadly rounded in full face view; frons and vertex densely foveolate with deep punctures, separated from each other by 0.2–0.5 × their diameter (0.04– 0.09 mm); mandible with four teeth, outer surface with elongate punctures and hairs, uppermost tooth anteriorly truncated, lowest tooth sharp ( Figure 5H View Figure 5 ); anterior margin of clypeus broadly round, median carina reaches antennal sockets; from scape to flagellomere III in ratio of 5.1: 1.0: 1.9: 1.7: 2.4 in length; from scape to flagellomere III and XI 3.2, 1.1, 1.6, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.4 × as long as wide respectively; compound eye 0.80 mm long and smooth without hairs; LE 1.4 × as wide as OOL; WF 3.1 × as wide as WOT; anterior angle of ocellar triangle right angled; POL 1.1 × as wide as AOL; OOL 1.5 × as wide as WOT ( Figure 5B View Figure 5 ).

Mesosoma ( Figure 5E, I View Figure 5 ): pronotum 0.4 × as long as wide, more sparsely punctuate than head, anterior margin with transverse groove; notaulix well-developed and anteriorly divergent, scutellum with anterior transverse deep groove; metanotum well-developed with oblique deep groove apically ( Figure 5E View Figure 5 ); propodeal disc short, 0.8 × as long as maximum width with convex lateral margin in dorsal view, median and lateral carinae present, transverse carina absent, median and submedian area irregularly rugulose ( Figure 5I View Figure 5 ); forewing with long metacarpus, about 0.5 × as long as pterostigma, discoidal vein arising posteriorly from transverse median vein ( Figure 5J View Figure 5 ); foreleg and hindleg with one tibial spur and midleg with two tibial spurs.

Metasoma ( Figure 5F View Figure 5 ): petiolate, smooth and shining with few hairs.

Genitalia ( Figure 5G, C View Figure 5 ): paramere short, lateral margin curved at distal twothirds of paramere, distal margin of paramere angled with many hairs, distal half well-sclerotized, micro-reticulate; aedeagus longer than paramere, bottle-shaped, well-sclerotized; digitus shorter than aedeagus, dorsally curved; basal margin relatively straight ( Figure 5G View Figure 5 ); hypopygium divided into two distinct lobes, distal half well-sclerotized, basal margin with median projection, distal one-third with dense punctures and hairs ( Figure 5C View Figure 5 ).

Female

Colour. Body yellowish testaceous to dark testaceous. Head: dark testaceous black except mandible testaceous with clypeus black; antenna testaceous. Mesosoma : pronotum, mesonotum and propodeum dark testaceous except mesopleuron pale testaceous; legs entirely pale testaceous. Metasoma: each tergite dark testaceous apart from distal testaceous thick transverse band.

Morphology. Body ( Figure 6A View Figure 6 ) 6.38–9.40 mm long.

Head ( Figure 6B, D–F View Figure 6 ): 1.3 × as long as wide with convex posterior margin and postero-lateral margin bluntly angulated in full face view; frons and vertex smooth with dense deep punctures, separated from each other by 0.5–3.0 × their diameter (0.03–0.05 mm), median longitudinal area of head smooth with few small punctures; mandible with four teeth and dense elongate punctures and hairs ( Figure 6F View Figure 6 ); margin of clypeus short, produced anteriorly with triangle in front view; from scape to flagellomere III in ratio of 5.3: 1.0: 1.1: 1.0: 1.0 in length; from scape to flagellomere III and XI 2.9, 0.8, 0.9, 0.7, 0.7 and 1.6 × as long as wide respectively ( Figure 6D View Figure 6 ); compound eye very small, 0.2 mm long, LE 1.9 × as long as LH, ocelli absent ( Figure 6E View Figure 6 ).

Mesosoma ( Figure 6C, 6I View Figure 6 ): pronotum 1.2 × as long as wide with fewer deep punctures than head, dorsal surface smooth except anterior, lateral and distal margins micro-reticulate with small, shallow rugae, pronotal collar micro-reticulate without any deep punctures; scutellum with few punctures; mesopleuron reticulate with shallow big punctures ( Figure 6G View Figure 6 ); propodeal disc long, 2.0 × as long as maximum width of propodeum, widest at about two-thirds of propodeum, median area smooth without any punctures or hairs except distal half area micro-reticulate, anterior margin V-shaped, lateral margin carinate ( Figure 6I View Figure 6 ).

Metasoma ( Figure 6H View Figure 6 ): petiolate and shining, each tergum with small punctures, from tergite III to V with biconvex margin distally in dorsal view.

Measurements.

See Table 3 for biometric measurement data.

Distribution

South Korea (Incheon, Daejeon, GG, GW, CB, CN, JB, JN, GB, GN); Taiwan ( Terayama and Yamane 1998).