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Anastatus Motschulsky 1859

  • 1. Biological Control Research Institute, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University; UN (China) Center for Fruit Fly Prevention and Treatment / Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education; State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Fuzhou 350002, China.

Description

1. Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859

This genus is one of the most speciose and cosmopolitan within Eupelmidae, comprising 158 recognized species (Noyes 2019; Huang et al. 2021; Peng et al. 2024). Anastatus, like all genera of the subfamily Eupelminae, exhibits strong sexual dimorphism, with females possessing a characteristically large acropleuron that comprises the entire mesopleuron, but males having an unenlarged acropleuron and therefore more closely resembling some males of what was historically classified as Pteromalidae prior to Cruaud et al. (2023) and Burks et al. (2022). Four species from the reserve were recorded.

Female characteristics. Body colour variable, ranging from yellow to brown or dark, and often with metallic lusters that can include green, blue, purple, and others. The head in lateral view is typically hemispherical. The scrobal depression is usually bell-shaped, with well-defined lateral margins and an incurved dorsal margin. The antenna is typically unicoloured, but one or more segments may be white. The mandibles are bidentate, usually with a small ventroapical tooth and broad, often slightly concave dorsoapical margin. The pronotum is divided medially. The mesoscutum and mesoscutellar-axillar complex are structurally diverse, with the structures often correlated with whether or not females of the species are macropterous or brachypterous. Wings usually partly infuscate with a hyaline band or one to three hyaline spots behind the marginal vein. The gaster almost always with a basal or subbasal white region extending from the first to the third gastral segment, and usually smooth and shiny. The syntergum is almost always light-coloured apically, with the margin rounded, truncate or fingernail-like.

Notes

Published as part of Li, Zixuan, Xu, Shirui, Wang, Zongying, Chen, Pengfei, Wu, Jianqin & Peng, Lingfei, 2025, Species of Eupelmidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Fujian Tianbaoyan National Nature Reserve, China, pp. 349-373 in Zootaxa 5665 (3) on page 351, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/16608772

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Motschulsky
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Eupelmidae
Genus
Anastatus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859 sec. Li, Xu, Wang, Chen, Wu & Peng, 2025

References

  • Noyes, J. S. (2019) Universal Chalcidoidea database. Available from: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/chalcidoids/familyindex.html (accessed 5 May 2024)
  • Huang, Z. Q., Hu, H. Y. & Kang, N. (2021) Description of a new species of Anastatus Motschulsky (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) from China. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-occidentalis Sinica, 30 (7), 1106-111.
  • Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J. Y., Zhang, J., Burks, R., Delvare, G., Fusu, L., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J. T., Jansta, P., Mitroiu, M. D., Noyes, J. S., Nootr, S. V., Baker, A., Bohmova, J., Baur, H., Blaimer, B. B., Brady, S. G., Budenikova, K., Chartois Marguerite, Copekabd R. S., Papilloud, N. D. S., Molin, A. D., Dominguez, C., Gebiola, M., Guerrieri, M., Kresslein, R. L., Krogmann, L., Lemmon, E., Murray, E. A., Nidelet, S., Aldrey, J. L. N., Perry, R. K., Peters, R. S., Polaszek, A., Saune, L., Torrens, J., Triapisyn, S., Tselikh, E. V., Yoder, M., Lemmon, A. R. & Heraty, J. M. (2023) The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps. Cladistics, 40, 34-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12561
  • Burks, R., Mitroiu, M. D., Fusu, L., Heraty, J. M., Jansta, P., Heydon, S., Papilloud, N. D. S., Peters, R. S., Tselikh, E. V., Woolley, J. B., Noort, S. V., Baur, H., Cruaud, A., Darling, C., Haas, M., Hanson, P., Krogmann, L. & Rasplus, J. V. (2022) From hell's heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 94, 13-88. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.94.94263