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Xiphydria kastsheevi Ermolenko 1979

Description

Xiphydria kastsheevi Ermolenko, 1979

Xiphydria kastsheevi Ermolenko, 1979: 129; Zhelochovtsev & Zinovjev, 1996: 376; Lelej & Taeger, 2007: 960; Taeger et al., 2010: 119; Sundukov & Lelej, 2012: 114; Sundukov, 2017: 116.

Summary of taxonomic characters (after Ermolenko 1979). Female: Length with ovipositor 10.5 mm. Head capsule black, with lateral part of clypeus, lower inner orbit, lower part of gena, and stripe in posterior upper part of gena extending to level of upper margin of eye brownish white. Antenna blackish brown to black, with 15 antennomeres. Thorax black; posterior margin of pronotum marked with dark brown. Legs brown, with trochanters light brown and basal 1/3 of tibiae brownish white; basal half of tarsomere 1 of hind leg pale brown. Wings blackish infuscated with apical part of forewing hyaline; forewing with cell 3R1 closed at apex; crossvein 2r-m basal to crossvein 2m-cu on vein M; cell 2Rs about as wide as cell 1M; hindwing with cell R1 closed at apex. Abdomen black, with distinct brownish white lateral spots on terga 4–5 and 8–9 and with narrow whitish posterior margin of last tergum.

Male unknown.

Distribution. Russia (Primorskij Kraj).

Host plant. Unknown.

Remarks. Xiphydria kastsheevi is known only from the holotype from Chuguevskij rajon, Primorskij kraj, Russia (Ermolenko 1979). It is very close to X. konishii and X. melanoptera, but is distinguished by the characters given in the key.

Notes

Published as part of Shinohara, Akihiko, Hara, Hideho & Smith, David R., 2020, The Xiphydria annulitibia group in northeastern Asia (Hymenoptera, Xiphydriidae), pp. 375-389 in Zootaxa 4755 (2) on page 386, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3733703

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Xiphydriidae
Genus
Xiphydria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ermolenko
Species
kastsheevi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Xiphydria kastsheevi Ermolenko, 1979 sec. Shinohara, Hara & Smith, 2020

References

  • Ermolenko, V. M. (1979) Novyj vid rogokhvostov-ksifidriid (Hymenoptera, Xiphydriidae) s Sikhote-Alinja. Trudy Vsesojuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshhestva, 61, 128 - 132.
  • Zhelochovtsev, A. N. & Zinovjev, A. G. (1996) A list of the sawflies and horntails (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) of the fauna of Russia and adjacent territories, II. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 75, 357 - 379. [in Russian with English summary]
  • Lelej, A. S. & Taeger, A. (2007) 10. Sem. Xiphydriidae-Ostrobrjukhie Rogokhvosty, ili Ksifidriidy. In: Lelej, A. S. (Ed.), Opredelitel' Nasekomykh Dal'nego Vostoka Rossii. Tom IV. Setchatokryloobraznye, skorpionnitsy, pereponchatokrylye. Chast' 5. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, pp. 960.
  • Taeger, A., Blank, S. M. & Liston, A. D. (2010) World catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa, 2580 (1), 1 - 1064. https: // doi. org / 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.113.1.61
  • Sundukov, Yu. N. & Lelej, A. S. (2012) Podotryad Symphyta-Sidyachebryukhie. In: Lelej, A. S. (Ed.), Annotated Catalogue of the Insects of Russian Far East. Vol. I. Hymenoptera. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, pp. 62 - 119. [in Russian]
  • Sundukov, Yu. N. (2017) Suborder Symphyta-Sawflies and wood wasps. In: Lelej, A. S., Proshchalykin, M. Yu. & Loktionov, V. M. (Eds.), Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Vol. I. Symphyta and Apocrita: Aculeata. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Supplement 6, pp. 20 - 117.