Pristaulacus obscurus (lat.) - a type of evanoid equestrians from the family Aulacidae . Southeast Asia .
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Spread
China , Yunnan Province : Nanhua County (2400 m), Jingdong, Waidaba (1250 m) [1] .
Description
Small hymenopterans , body length in males about 12.0 mm, length of the front wing 9.4 mm. The main body color is completely black. The rear edge of the head is straight. Lower lateral margin of pronotum with serrated protrusion. Occipital carina developed. Front wings without transverse vein 2r-m. Pretarsal claws are crested with several serrated protrusions along the inner edge. Antennae long 14-segmented in both sexes. The palp formula is 6.4. A chest with a rough sculpture. Have an unusual attachment of the abdomen high on the propodeum of the breast [1] .
Systematics
It differs from closely related species of Pristaulacus obscurus in a completely black body (including legs and abdomen). The species was first described in 2016 by Chinese entomologists H. Chen ( Hua-yan Chen ), Z. Xu ( Zai-fu Xu ; South China Agricultural University , Guangzhou , China ) and Italian hymenopterologist Giuseppe F. Turrisi ( Giuseppe Fabrizio Turrisi ; University of Catania, San Gregorio di Catania, Italy ) [1] .
Notes
- 2 1 2 3 Hua-yan Chen, Giuseppe Fabrizio Turrisi, Zai-fu Xu. A revision of the Chinese Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea) (Eng.) // ZooKeys. - Sofia : Pensoft Publishers, 2016. - Vol. 587. - P. 77-124. - ISSN 1313-2970 . - DOI : 10.3897 / zookeys.587.7207 . (10 May 2016)
Literature
- Sundukov Yu.N., Lelei A.S. Review of the family Aulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) in the Russian Far East (Russian) = Overview of the Aulacidae family (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) of the Russian Far East // Euroasian Entomological Journal: Journal. - Novosibirsk -M.: IS&E SB RAS , KMK, 2015. - Vol. 14, No. 2 . - P. 107–118.
- Turrisi, GF; Smith, DR Systematic revision and phylogeny of the endemic southeastern Asian Pristaulacus comptipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) (eng.) // Zootaxa : Journal. - Auckland , New Zealand : Magnolia Press, 2011. - Vol. 2959. - P. 1–72. - ISSN 1175-5326 .