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Megalommum tibiale

  • 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

7. Megalommum tibiale (Ashmead, 1906)

Figs 10, 11

Curriea tibialis Watanabe, 1937: 15.

Melanobracon tibialis Ashmead, 1906: 195.

Atanycolus tibialis Fahringer, 1928: 579.

Megalommum tibiale van Achterberg & Mehrnejad, 2011: 24; Yu et al., 2016.

Material examined. 16♀♀ 1♂, NE China, Liaoning Province, Kuandian County, Daxicha Forest, 14.VI.2008, N40°44′58″, E125°11′35″, 446 m altitude, Yang Zhong-Qi; 4♀, id., but 30.VII.2011, cocoons in the beetle gallery; emerged 12.VIII.2011 N40°44′27″, E125°11′58″, 440 m altitude.

Hosts. Parasitoid of Massicus raddei (new record).

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Liaoning, Zhejiang), Japan.

Remarks. Megalommum tibiale is one of main parasitoids of M. raddei. Based on the material we collected, the ratio of female to male is 20:1, which is the highest observed among all the parasitoids in this study.

Notes

Published as part of Cao, Liang-Ming, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Tang, Yan-Long, Wang, Xiao-Yi & Yang, Zhong- Qi, 2020, Revision of parasitoids of Massicus raddei (Blessig & Solsky) (Coleoptera Cerambycidae) in China, with one new species and genus, pp. 104-130 in Zootaxa 4881 (1) on page 117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4425947

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2008-06-14
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Megalommum
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ashmead
Species
tibiale
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2008-06-14
Taxonomic concept label
Megalommum tibiale (Ashmead, 1906) sec. Cao, Achterberg, Tang, Wang & Yang, 2020

References

  • Ashmead, W. H. (1906) Descriptions of new Hymenoptera from Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 30, 169 - 201. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.30 - 1448.169
  • Watanabe, C. (1937) A contribution to the knowledge of the braconid fauna of the Empire of Japan. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture of Hokkaido Imperial University, 42, 1 - 188.
  • Fahringer, J. (1928 - 1935) Opuscula braconologica. 2. Aethiopische Region. Lieferung 1 - 8. Wagner, Wien, 635 pp.
  • van Achterberg, C. & Mehrnejad, M. R. (2011) A new species of Megalommum Szepligeti (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae); a parasitoid of the pistachio longhorn beetle (Calchaenesthes pistacivora Holzschuh; Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Iran. ZooKeys, 112, 21 - 38. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 112.1735
  • Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, C. & Horstmann, K. (2016) World Ichneumonoidea, taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Taxapad Interactive catalogue on flash drive, Nepean.