Mesopolobus nobilis
Creators: name: Xiao, Hui
name: Sun, Lei
name: Jiao, Tianyang
name: Li, Zi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Mesopolobus
Mesopolobus nobilis

description: Mesopolobus nobilis (Walker 1834) New record to China (Fig. 16)
Platyterma nobile Walker, 1834a: 304, Lectotype ♀, BMNH (Examined, B.M. TYPE HYM 5.1824).
Mesopolobus nobilis (Walker): Rosen, 1958: 212; Graham, 1969: 655–657.
Platyterma decorum Walker, 1834b: 342.
Material examined. China. 1♀, Heilongjiang, Yichun, 350 m, 19 August 1978, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♀, Heilongjiang, Yichun, 350 m, 21 August 1978, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♀, Jilin, Tonghua, 26 July 1978, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♀, Inner Mongolia, Manzhouli, 6 August 1961, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♀, Inner Mongolia, Hailaer, 1 August 1981, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♀, Inner Mongolia, Hailaer, 2 July 1981, coll. Dingxi Liao; 6♀ 2♂, Inner Mongolia, Hailaer, 3 August 1981, coll. Dingxi Liao; 2♀ 2♂, Beijing, 11 July 1986, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♀ 1♂, Beijing, Yanqing, 450m, 1 July 1990, coll. Dawei Huang; 1♀, Beijing, Yanqing, 450m, 2 July 1990, coll. Dawei Huang; 1m, Beijing, Fangshan, 14 July 1983, coll. Dawei Huang; 1♀, 1m, Beijing, Qinglongqiao, 20 July 1983, coll. Dawei Huang; 1♀, Hebei, Xiaowutai, 1 200 m, 6 August 1964, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♀, Hebei, Xiaowutai, 16 August 1964, coll. Tailu Chen; 1♂, Ningxia, Longde, 13 April 1980, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♀, Gansu Zhangye, 22 July 1976, coll. Dingxi Liao; 1♂, Qinghai, Xining, 3 June 1997, coll. Chaodong Zhu; 18♀ 6♂, Xinjiang, Tacheng, 22 July 1955, coll. Shijun Ma, Kailing Xia, Yonglin Chen; 4♀ 3♂, Xinjiang, Tacheng, 24 July 1955, coll. Shijun Ma, Kailing Xia, Yonglin Chen; 4♀, Xinjiang, Qinghe, Yaerkate, 1 August 1956, coll. Weiyi Yang; 1♀, Xinjiang, Qinghe, 2 August 1956, coll. Weiyi Yang; 2♀, Xinjiang, August 1956, coll. Weiyi Yang; 1♂, Xinjiang, Yining River valley, 540–630 m, 6 August 1957, coll. Guang Wang; 1♂, Xinjiang, Hejing, 1 580 m, 9 August 1958, coll. Changguang Li; 1♀, Xinjiang, Chuoqiang, Alagan, 850 m, 7 May 1960, coll. Shuyong Wang; 1♀, Xinjiang, Shate, 1 860 m, 11 August 1957, coll. Chunpei Hong; 1♀ 1♂, Zhejiang, Tianmu Mountain, 1 100 m, 6 June 1964, coll. Dingxi Liao; 2♀ 10♂, Hunan, Nanyue Mountain, 2 June 1980, coll. Xinwang Tong; 1♀, Fujian, Chongan, Longdu Pikeng, 380–580 m, 24 May 1960, coll. Chenglin Ma; 1♀, Fujian, Chongan, Xingcun Sangang, 740–910 m, 25 May 1960, coll. Chenglin Ma; 2♀, Fujian, Chongan, Xingcun Longdu, 580–640 m, 5 June 1960, coll. Yong Zuo; 1♀, Fujian, Chongan, Xingcun Guadun, 900 m, 30 June 1960, coll. Yong Zuo; 1♀, Fujian, Shaowu, 6 September 1945, coll. Xiufu Zhao; 1♂, Fujian, Shaowu, 12 October 1948, coll. Xiufu Zhao; 1♀, Sichuan, Chengdu, 18 July 1963, coll. Pengrong Chen; 2♀, Sichuan Chengdu, 29 November 1963, coll. Dingxi Liao; 2♂, Yunnan, Jingdong, Wuliang Mountain, 2 302 m, 3 May 1985, coll. Changfang Li.
Biology. M. nobilis was recorded lives in the seeds of grasses (Gramineae: Avena, Bromus). (Rosen, 1962; Burks, 1979)
Distribution. China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Hebei, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan);Palearctic, Nearctic and Oriental Regions (Noyes, 2014).
description: Published as part of Xiao, Hui, Sun, Lei, Jiao, Tianyang & Li, Zi, 2016, A revision of Chinese species of Mesopolobus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) with descriptions of four new species from China, pp. 64-81 in Zoological Systematics 41 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201604, http://zenodo.org/record/4617570