Metopheltes chinensis (Morley, 1913)

Reshchikov, Alexey & van Achterberg, Kees, 2014, Review of the genus Metopheltes Uchida, 1932 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with description of a new species from Vietnam, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1061-1061 : 1061

Metopheltes chinensis (Morley, 1913)

Opheltes chinensis Morley, 1913 - Morley 1913: 135.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fortune; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Location: country: China; Event: eventDate: 1854; Record Level: institutionCode: BMNH

Distribution

China.

Notes

This species is represented by a single male specimen. In the original description ( Morley 1913) the type locality is not clearly mentioned, and the label data is poor, "a single male in British Museum is labelled "Northern China", but was more probably taken about Shanghai, by Mr. Fortune." ( Morley 1913). However photos of the type specimen (Fig. 6) allow one to distinguish this species from closely related Metopheltes petiolaris . In future if more representative material of Metopheltes can be collected it will be possible to clarify the status of this species and provide an identification key for the group.