Haltichella clavicornis (Ashmead, 1904)

Wang, Zi-Tong & Li, Cheng-De, 2021, Three new species, and new distributional data, of Haltichella (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) from China, ZooKeys 1060, pp. 1-16 : 1

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scientific name	Haltichella clavicornis (Ashmead, 1904)
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Treatment

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Stomatoceras clavicornis Ashmead, 1904: 148; holotype ♂, USNM, Japan, not examined.

Haltichella clavicornis : Habu 1960: 241.

Haltichella macroclava Roy & Farooqi, 1984: 27; holotype ♀, IARI, India, not examined. Synonymised with Haltichella clavicornis by Narendran 1989: 152-153.

Material.

(NEFU). 1 ♀, China: Henan Province, Xinyang City, Wusheling , 7-9. VIII. 2015 , YPT, Yan Gao, Hui Geng, Zhi-Guang Wu; 1 ♀ 2 ♂, China: Hainan Province, Haikou City, Haida Base , 27-29.IV.2019 , YPT, Yu-Ting Jiang; 1 ♀, id., but Pinnacle Ridge , 17-19.V.2021 , Gang Fu, Ming-Rui Li; 1 ♀, China: Yunnan Province, Yuanjiang County, 26-28.XI.2020 , YPT, Jun-Jie Fan, Ming-Rui Li, Gang Fu, Jun Wu; 1 ♀, id., but Mengla Town , Mengla County, 17-18. XI. 2020 .

Diagnosis.

Female. Body length 2.8-3.1 mm, mostly black (Fig. 4A View Figure 4 ); antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish brown, flagellum brown to dark brown (Fig. 4C View Figure 4 ); eye and ocelli silvery gray (Fig. 5D View Figure 5 ); tegula yellowish brown; fore and mid legs yellowish brown; hind leg (Fig. 5A View Figure 5 ) and metasoma reddish brown (Fig. 5B View Figure 5 ); fore wing hyaline (Fig. 4D View Figure 4 ), venation brownish. Head 1.3 × as wide as long in frontal view (Figs 4B View Figure 4 , 5D View Figure 5 ); scrobe not reaching anterior ocellus (Fig. 4B View Figure 4 ); POL 4.3 × as long as OOL; antenna (Fig. 4C View Figure 4 ) distinctly clavate; pedicel longer than Fu1, flagellum increases in breadth distad; mesoscutellum (Fig. 4E View Figure 4 ) flat with a median longitudinal fovea; apex of mesoscutellum with two short diverging and short teeth; submedian carinae of propodeum parallel (Fig. 5C View Figure 5 ); postmarginal vein (Fig. 4D View Figure 4 ) shorter than stigmal vein. Metasoma (Fig. 5B View Figure 5 ) oval, Gt1 occupying 0.75 × length of metasoma, with three longitudinal carinae at base.

Male. Body length 2.8-2.9 mm. Scape and pedicel brown, flagellum brownish black (Fig. 6B View Figure 6 ); hind leg black except brown tarsus, extreme apex of femur brown, distal apex of tibia brown; metasoma black (Fig. 6A View Figure 6 ); anellus not obvious; Fu1-7 subquadrate; club 2 × as long as and as broad as the preceding segment (Fig. 6B View Figure 6 ). Gt1 occupying 0.6 × length of metasoma (Fig. 6D View Figure 6 ), distal half of Gt1 with microsculpture. Other features similar to female.

Hosts.

Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Henan [new record], Hainan [new record], Yunnan [new record]), Japan, Laos, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Nepal, Philippines ( Narendran 1989; Narendran and van Achterberg 2016).

Comments.

Our specimens agree well with the original description except for the colour of the antenna and metasoma. This is the first record from Henan, Hainan and Yunnan Provinces, China.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Chalcididae
Genus	Haltichella