Megarhyssa praecellens
Authors/Creators
- 1. Key Laboratory of Forest Protection of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China.
- 2. State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Agricultural Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, and Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
- 3. Laboratory of Regional Characteristic for Conservation and Utilization of Plant Resource in Chishui River Basin, College of Biology and Agriculture, Zunyi Normal University, Zunyi, 563002, China.
Description
1. Megarhyssa praecellens (Tosquinet, 1889)
Fig. 1
Thalessa praecellens Tosquinet, 1889: 134.
Megarhyssa praecellens; Sheng & Sun, 2010: 231; Sheng & Sun, 2014: 308; Yu et al., 2016.
Material examined. 1♀, NE China, Liaoning Province, Kuandian County, Daxicha Forest, 7.VII.2015, 40°44′58″N, 125°11′35″E, 455 m altitude, Cao Liang-Ming leg. It was laying eggs in the trunk of a Quercus mongolica tree infested by M. raddei.
Hosts. Parasitoid of Cerambycidae (Massicus raddei, Anoplophora glabripennis Motschulsky); and Siricidae (Sirex nitobei Matsumura, Tremex fuscicornis (F.), Urocerus japonicus (Smith)).
Distribution. China (Beijing, Fujian, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Zhejiang), Japan, Korea, Laos, Russia, Vietnam.
Remarks. Body length ♀ 43.5 mm (the examined specimen). The first record of M. praecellens parasitizing M. raddei was provided by Sheng & Sun (2010) in list of its hosts. We also report M. raddei as its host based on its oviposition in the trunk of a Q. mongolica tree, which was infested by M. raddei, and on this tree other woodborers can be excluded under our observation. However, there is still no direct evidence, such as an adult M. praecellens reared from a larva of M. raddei.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Tosquinet
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Megarhyssa
- Species
- praecellens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megarhyssa praecellens (Tosquinet, 1889) sec. Cao, Achterberg, Tang, Wang & Yang, 2020
References
- Tosquinet, J. (1889) Documents pour servir a la monographie des Ichneumonides de la Russie d'Asie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 33, 125 - 148.
- Sheng, M. L. & Sun, S. P. (2010) Parasitic ichneumonids on woodborers in China (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Science Press, Beijing, 334 + xl pp.
- Sheng, M. L. & Sun, S. P. (2014) Ichneumonid fauna of Liaoning. Science Press, Beijing, 464 pp.
- Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, C. & Horstmann, K. (2016) World Ichneumonoidea, taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Taxapad Interactive catalogue on flash drive, Nepean.