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Iphiaulax impostor

  • 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

8. Iphiaulax impostor (Scopoli, 1763)

Fig. 12

Ichneumon impostor Scopoli, 1763: 287.

Iphiaulax impostor Foerster, 1863: 234. Shenefelt, 1978: 1769; Yu et al., 2016.

Bracon impostor Nees, 1819: 304.

Material examined. 1♀, NE China, Jilin Province, Meihekou City, Jile Village, Jixing Forest Farm, 10.VIII.2008, Tang Hua leg; collected when it was laying eggs in the trunk of a Quercus mongolica tree infested by M. raddei.

Hosts. Parasitoid of Cerambycidae (Massicus raddei (new record), Acanthocinus aedilis (L.), Acanthoderes clavipes (Schrank), A. varius (Fabricius), Apriona germari (Hope), Icosium tomentosum Lucas, Leiopus nebulosus (L.), Monochamus galloprovincialis Olivier, M. sutor (L.), Oberea linearis L., Plagionotus arcuatus (L.), Purpuricenus budensis (Goeze), Rhagium inquisitor L., Saperda populnea (L.)); Buprestidae (Anthaxia morio (Fabricius), Melanophila picta Pall, Phaenops yin Kubáň & Bílý); and Cossidae (Xyleutes persona (Le Guillou), Zeuzera leuconotum Butler).

Distribution. China (Beijing, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shangdong, Shanxi, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Ja-pan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, former Yugoslavia.

Remarks. Body length ♀ 5.9 mm.

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 pages 117-118, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4425947

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References

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  • Foerster, A. (1863) Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Braconiden. Verhandlunggen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischnen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 199, 225 - 288.
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  • Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, C. & Horstmann, K. (2016) World Ichneumonoidea, taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Taxapad Interactive catalogue on flash drive, Nepean.
  • Nees, von Esenbeck, C. G. (1819) Appendix ad J. L. C. Gravenhorst conspectum generum et familiarum Ichneumonidum, genera et familiam Ichneumonidum adscitorum exhibens. Nova Acta Academiae Caesoreae Lepoldino-Carolinae, 9, 299 - 310.