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Pachyprotasis subtilis Malaise 1945

  • 1. Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. Haikou, Hainan, & Bee Industry Technology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. Haikou, Hainan,
  • 2. Postdoctoral Work Station, Scientific Research and Management Center of East China Pharmaceutical Botanical
  • 3. College of Life Science, Jiangxi Normal University. Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330027, China.

Description

Pachyprotasis subtilis Malaise, 1945

Figs 253–270

Pachyprotasis subtilis Malaise, 1945:150; Wei, 2006: 622; Saini & Kalia, 1989: 151–152, figs 140, 145, 154, 166, 176, 167, 176; Saini, 2007: 72, figs 161, 164, 168, 175, 177, 185, 194, 204.

Diagnosis. Female (Figs 253–262). Body length 8.0 mm. This species can be distinguished from other similar species of the P. flavipes group by the following characters: mesepisternum black, without white; terga black, extreme apex of each tergum white; hind coxa, apical 2/3 of femur and tibia except extreme apex reddish-brown, trochanter, basal 1/3 of femur, apex of tarsomere 1 to base of tarsomere 5 white, outer part of trochanter and femur with black narrow band; punctures on mesepisternum moderate.

Male (Figs 263–270). Body length 7.0 mm. Color and structure similar to female, except: tegula white, apex black; fore and middle legs white, outer base of coxae, dorsal side of femora to tarsi with narrow black stripes, metacoxa blackish-brown, dorsal part reddish-brown; antennomeres strongly compressed.

Variation. Body length of female 7.5–8.5 mm and male 6.5–7.5 mm.

Distribution. China (Gansu, Guizhou, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan), Burma-Yunnan frontier, India.

Non-type material. 2♀, 1♂, China, Henan province, Songxian, 33°54’N, 111°59’E, 15–18-VII-1996, Meicai WEI leg.; 4♀, China, Henan province, Neixiang, Mt. Baotianman, 33°30’N, 111°56’E, alt. 1300–1600 m, 12–17-VII-1998, Meicai WEI et. leg.; 3♀, China, Henan province, Songxian, Mt. Baiyun, 33°54’N, 111°59’E, alt. 1500–1600 m, 18–22-VII-2002, Jigang JIANG leg.; 13♀, China, Henan province, Songxian, Mt. Baiyun, 33°54’N, 111°59’E, alt. 1300–1600 m, 13–15-VII-2004, Shaobing ZHANG &Weixing LIU leg.; 5♀, China, Henan province, Neixiang, Mt. Baotianman, 33°30’N, 111°56’E, alt. 1300–1700 m, 22–24-VII-2004, Shaobing ZHANG &Weixing LIU leg.; 1♀, China, Henan province, Neixiang, Mt. Baotianman, 33°30’N, 111°56’E, alt. 1300 m, 2-VI-2006, Yihai ZHONG leg.; 2♀, China, Gansu province, Tianshui, Forestry Farm, 34°22’N, 106°01’E, alt. 1330 m, 10-VII-2009, Xun ZHU leg.; 1♀, China, Shaanxi province, Huayin, Mt. Hua, 34°29’N, 110°00’E, alt. 1300–1600 m, 12-VII-2005, Xun ZHU leg.; 1♀, China, Guizhou province, Mt. Fanjin, 28°00’N, 108°04’E, 13-VII-1983, Xuexin CHEN leg.; 1♀, China, Sichuan province, Chongzhou, Mt. Anzihe, Lihuan, 30°46’N, 103°13’E, alt. 1750 m, 21-VII-2016,Kaiwen GAO leg. (ASMN).

Notes

Published as part of Zhong, Yihai, Li, Zejian & Wei, Meicai, 2021, Review of the Pachyprotasis flavipes group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species, pp. 1-50 in Zoologia (e 59733) (e 59733) 38 on pages 35-37, DOI: 10.3897/zoologia.38.e59733, http://zenodo.org/record/13176260

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