Asecodes reticulatum (Kamijo)

Li, Ming-Rui & Li, Cheng-De, 2021, A new species of Asecodes Foerster (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) and first record of A. reticulatum (Kamijo) from China, with a key to Chinese species, ZooKeys 1049, pp. 1-14 : 1

Asecodes reticulatum (Kamijo)

Figs 9 , 10-16

Closterocerus reticulatus (Kamijo): Gumovsky 2003: 33.

Desmatocharis reticulata Kamijo, 1986: 243.

Teleopterus reticulatum (Kamijo): Hansson 1996: 162.

Teleopterus reticulatus (Kamijo): Hansson 1994: 669.

Material examined.

1♀ [NEFU; on slide], China, Heilongjiang Province, Yichun City, Dailing District , Liangshui Forestry Station , 28.VII.2015, Si-Zhu Liu, Xin-Yu Zhang and Xing-Yue Jin, sweeping ; 2♀ [NEFU; 1 on card, 1 on slide], CHINA, Heilongjiang Province, Yichun City, Dailing District, Liangshui Forestry Station , 9.VII.2013, Guo-Hao Zu, Si-Zhu Liu and Hui Geng, sweeping .

Diagnosis.

Female. Scape compressed, with apex of ventral margin curved smoothly in a wide arc, pedicel as long as F1 (Fig. 11 ); mesoscutellum sparsely and entirely reticulated with wide meshes, propodeum shorter than 1/3 length of mesoscutellum (Fig. 12 ); fore wing twice as long as wide, and with an infuscate transverse band below MV, disc of fore wing with sparse setation (Fig. 13 ).

Host.

Primary parasitoid of Rhamphus oxyacanthae (Marsham) ( Coleoptera , Curculionidae ) ( Hansson 1994).

Distribution.

China (Heilongjiang Province) (new record), Japan ( Kamijo 1986), Russia ( Gumovsky 2003), Ukraine ( Gumovsky 2003) and Sweden ( Hansson 1994).

Comments.

See Kamijo (1986) for a detailed description; our specimens agree well with this description.

Figures

Figure 9. Asecodes reticulatum (Kamijo), female 9 habitus in lateral view. Scale bar: 200 μm.

Figures 10 - 16. Asecodes reticulatum (Kamijo), female, on slide 10 head, frontal view, arrows show subtorular grooves 11 antenna 12 mesosoma 13 fore wing 14 hind wing 15 metasoma 16 legs, from left to right: fore, mid and hind leg. Scale bars: 100 μm.