Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878)

Haas, Michael, Baur, Hannes, Schweizer, Tanja, Monje, Juan Carlos, Moser, Marina, Bigalk, Sonia & Krogmann, Lars, 2021, Tiny wasps, huge diversity - A review of German Pteromalidae with new generic and species records (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 77092-77092 : 77092

Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_37573 ; recordedBy: H.-J. Flügel; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538094 ; Taxon: scientificName: Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Hessen; locality: Lkr. Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Neumorschen , Halberg , 5202g ; verbatimElevation: 196 m; decimalLatitude: 9.6022; decimalLongitude: 51.0628; Identification: identifiedBy: H. Baur; dateIdentified: 2014; Event: eventDate: 16/10/2012; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_000510; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_39910 ; recordedBy: T. Kothe, G. Schweizer; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538141 ; Taxon: scientificName: Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Lkr. Esslingen, Oberboihingen ; verbatimElevation: 307 m; decimalLatitude: 9.3689; decimalLongitude: 48.6506; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 4/ 4 - 4/5/2014; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_002845; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_39918 ; recordedBy: T. Kothe, G. Schweizer; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538076 ; Taxon: scientificName: Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Lkr. Esslingen, Oberboihingen ; verbatimElevation: 307 m; decimalLatitude: 9.3689; decimalLongitude: 48.6506; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 4/ 4 - 4/5/2014; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_002853; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_40869 ; recordedBy: J. Aronov; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538074 ; Taxon: scientificName: Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Stuttgart , Wilhelma , Hutewald , alt ; verbatimElevation: 258 m; decimalLatitude: 9.1995; decimalLongitude: 48.8066; Identification: identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 16/ 6 - 1/7/2014; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_003804; institutionCode: SMNS

Ecological interactions

Parasite of

The species was reported as a parasitoid of wood-boring Coleoptera ( Buprestidae : Melanophila cyanea (Fabricius, 1775)) in dying twigs.

Distribution

Eastern to central Europe incl. United Kingdom; Germany: Baden-Württemberg, Hessen

Notes

Newly-recorded genus and species in Germany. The barcodes cluster in two subclusters, but no morphological distinction is possible. Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878) might be cryptic. Images: Fig. 23 .

Figures

Figure 23. Digital microscopic images of Apelioma pteromalinum (Thomson, 1878) (♀, Pte _ 002853: A - C; ♂, Pte _ 002845: D - F). A, D Habitus lateral B, E Habitus dorsal C, F Head frontal. Scale bars: A, B, D, E 500 µm; C, F 200 µm.