Pristaulacus intermedius Uchida, 1932

Chen, Hua-yan, Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Xu, Zai-fu, 2016, A revision of the Chinese Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea), ZooKeys 587, pp. 77-124 : 99-101

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Aulacidae

Pristaulacus intermedius Uchida, 1932 Figs 66, 67-73, 74-75, 122

Pristaulacus intermedius Uchida, 1932: 190.

Pristaulacus intermedius Uchida: Hedicke 1939: 11; Smith 2001: 288; Turrisi 2007: 48; Lee and Turrisi 2008: 115; Turrisi et al. 2009: 57; Smith and Tripotin 2011: 523.

Material examined.

CHINA: 1 ♀ (IZCAS), Jilin, Jiaogou, 21.VII.1985, IOZ(E) 1903967; 1 ♀ (IZCAS), Jilin, Mangjiang, 26.VII.1955, Zhi-yin Li, IOZ(E) 1903965; 1 ♀ (IZCAS); Yunnan, Menghai, 17.IV.1982, Chun-mei Huang, IOZ(E) 1903966; 1 ♀ (OLML), Shaanxi province, Mounts Qinling, Xunyangba (6 km E), 1000-1300 m, 23. V– 13.VI.1998, I.H. Marshal leg.

Diagnosis.

Forewing slightly infuscate, with large dark brown spot under stigma; metasoma entirely blackish, at most slightly lightened basally; basal antennomeres elongate (A3 5.0-6.0 × longer than wide, A4 10.0 × longer than wide); occipital margin straight, wide, 0.5 × diameter of ocellus, lamelliform, brownish; lateroventral margin of pronotum without process; ovipositor 1.3 × forewing length.

Distribution.

China (Liaoning, Jilin, Shaanxi, Yunnan); Japan; South Korea ( Lee and Turrisi 2008; Smith and Tripotin 2011).

Biology.

Collected from April to August. Host: Chlorophorus japonicus (Chevrolat, 1863) ( Coleoptera , Cerambycidae ) (Uchida 1932).

Remarks.

This is the first record of this species from the Oriental Region.