Xiphydria ogasawarai Matsumura, 1927

Alshanberi, Asim M, Mousa, Ahmed H, Hashim, Sama A, Almutairi, Reem S, Alrehali, Sara, Hamisu, Aisha M, Shaikhomer, Mohammed & Ansari, Shakeel A, 2022, New Collection and Host Plant Records for Six Xiphydriidae (Hymenoptera) from Japan, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 48 (2), pp. 85-88 : 87-88

Xiphydria ogasawarai Matsumura, 1927

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Xiphydria ogasawarai Matsumura, 1927: 205 ; Shinohara, 2019: 533 . See Shinohara (2019) for more synonyms and references.

Specimens examined. HONSHU: Hyogo Pref.: 1 ♀, Onzui-keikoku, Onzui, Haga-cho, Shisoshi , 20. VII. 2021, R. Okano. Okayama Pref.: 2 ♀, Ushiro-yama , Higashiawakura-son, Aidagun , Okayama, 13. VI. 1992, A. Watanabe; 2 ♀, Darugamine Rindo , 1,075 m, 35°12′38″N 134°22′23″E, Ôgaya, Nishiawakura, 2. VIII. 2021, A. Shinohara; 1♀, same data except A. Watanabe .

Host plants. Juglandaceae : Juglans mandshurica Maxim. var. sachalinensis (Komatsu) Kitam. , Pterocarya rhoifolia Siebold et Zucc. Sapindaceae : Acer sieboldianum Miq. , Acer palmatum Thunb. , Aesculus turbinata Blume. Araliaceae : Kalopanax septemlobus (Thunb.) Koidz. (Shinohara & Hara, 2020). Rosaceae : Sorbus commixta Hedl. (new record).

Remarks. The female specimen from Onzui-keikoku listed above represents the second published record of this species from Hyogo Prefecture ( Naito et al., 2004; Shinohara, 2019). This species is already known from Okayama Prefecture ( Konchu Bukai, 2019), but apparently no collection data have been published. Perhaps, the record ( Konchu Bukai, 2019) refers to the collection data of ″ X. palaeanarctica ‶ (= X. nagasei , see discussion above) by Kondo & Miyake (1976), who used the Japanese name Higejirokubinagakibachi. This Japanese name was formerly used for both X. palaeanarctica and X. ogasawarai , which were once treated as synonyms ( Watanabe, 1956).

One of the females from Darugamine Rindo listed above was ovipositing on a tree of Sorbus commixta ( Fig. 1 ), when I found it on August 2, 2021. The female was found on the trunk at about 1.5m above the ground of the half dead tree of about five meters high and with some dead and shriveled leaves. This is the first record of Sorbus commixta as the host plant of X. ogasawarai .

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Fig. 1. Xiphydria ogasawarai, female, ovipositing on the trunk of Sorbus commixta, Darugamine Rindo, Okayama Prefecture, August 2, 2021.