A new species of Metopiinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) parasitizing lepidopteran larvae in China

By

Zhang, Ying
Sheng, Mao-Ling
Xiong, Zi-Cheng

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

572

Pages

71-79

Subjects

Bazaria turensis , China , new species , Psychidae , Pyralidae , Trieces

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.572.8031

 

Abstract

A new species of Metopiinae, Trieces etuokensis Sheng, sp. n., is described and illustrated. Specimens were reared from two species of Lepidoptera: Bazaria turensis (Ragonot, 1887) (Pyralidae) from Balong, Dulan, Qinghai Province, and an unidentified psychid (Psychidae) from Mukainor, Etuoke, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. The new species is characterized by a yellow face and clypeus, fore and middle femora and hind tibia mainly black, antennae slightly longer than head and mesosoma combined, with 17 flagellomeres, occipital carina entirely absent, and the hind femur being compressed, 2.5 times as its long as maximum width.