Anastatus dendrolimus Kim and Pak, 1965: 73
Anastatus dendrolimus
Xiao et al ., 2001: 204
A. japonicus
A. dendrolimus
Review of the species of Anastatus (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) known from China, with description of two new species with brachypterous females
Peng, Lingfei
Gibson, Gary A. P.
Tang, Lu
Xiang, Jiawei
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-28
4767
3
351
401
DGYK
Kim and Pak, 1965
Kim and Pak
1965
[151,826,1269,1296]
Insecta
Eupelmidae
Anastatus
Animalia
Hymenoptera
46
397
Arthropoda
species
dendrolimus
Anastatus
Anastatus dendrolimus Kim and Pak, 1965: 73. Described: both sexes. Anastatus dendrolimus; Xiao et al., 2001: 204. Misidentification of A. japonicus. Species concept.Our concept of A. dendrolimusis based on the original description only. We were unable to locate typematerial of the species, supposedly deposited in KoreaUniversity, which according to Duk-Young Park ( SeoulNational University, Seoul, Republic of Korea) could not be found in the University collection (personal communication).
Regional material examined.None.
Distribution. PALAEARCTIC: Korea( Noyes 2019).
Remarks. Xiao et al. (2001)identified A. dendrolimusfrom Jilin Province, but a voucher female in IZCAS examined by L. Peng proved to be A. japonicus, and we therefore exclude A. dendrolimusfrom the fauna of China. However, we are uncertain of the exact identity of A. dendrolimus, including even its generic status. The short original description is insufficient to confidently identify the species because it states, in part, that females have the axillae smooth, whereas the axillae are quite distinctly reticulate for typical female Anastatus. The characterisation of smooth axillae more closely approximates the condition of female Mesocomys, which as noted under ‘Remarks’ for the genus, often have similar fore wing colour patterns and a basally white-banded gaster as for typical female Anastatus. However, the only species of Mesocomysknown from South Koreais M. albitarsis( Ashmead, 1904) ( Noyes 2019), females of which have dark legs rather than the described yellow legs for A. dendrolimus. Further, Kim and Pak (1965)reported M. albitarsisin the same paper, under the name Pseudanastatus albitarsis, as a second species reared from D. spectabiliseggs.