Apanteles verticalis Song & Chen 2004
Creators: name: Liu, Zhen
name: He, Jun-Hua
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
name: Gupta, Ankita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Apanteles
Apanteles verticalis

description: Apanteles verticalis Song & Chen, 2004   
(Figures 85, 103)  
 Apanteles verticalis Song & Chen, 2004: 93. Holotype ♀ — Hubei, China [FAFU].   
 Diagnosis. Body length 2.4 mm, fore wing length 3.1 mm. Body mostly black, hind femur yellow. Ocelli large, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus transecting posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus shorter than diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna distinctly shorter than body length, penultimate flagellomere 1.4× longer than wide. Interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum not smaller than its diameter. Areola on propodeum closed, V-shaped apically, with strong costulae. Pterostigma 2.8× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.3× longer than pterostigma, vein r 1.9× longer than vein 2-SR, strongly angled at junction. T1 nearly parallel-sided, 2.3× longer than hind width, turned-over part slightly shiny, strongly rugose, longitudinal channel absent; T2 shiny and polished, trapezoidal, 2.5× wider than long in the middle; T3 1.6× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath as long as hind tibia.   
 Material examined. 1♀, Mt. Wuyi, Fujian, 1985.VII.29, Lin Naiquan, No. 968346; 4♀♀, ditto, 1986. VII.8 /12/15, Wang Jiashe, Nos. 865485, 865500, 865503, 865586; 1♀, Mt. Xiaowuyi, Fujian, 1983.VII.26–29, He Junhua, No. 832653; 1♀, Jinxixiang, Jianning, Fujian, 2002.IX.25, Ruan Desong, No. 20024275; 1♀, Meixian, Youxi, Fujian, 1988.X.15, Lin Changfu, No. 20005247; 1♀, Tianbaoyan, Yongan, Fujian, 2001.VII.17, Piao Mei- hua, No. 200106871; 5♀♀, Mt. Longxi, Jiangle, Fujian, 1991.VII.8 /IX.30/VII.16, Liu Changming, Nos. 969740, 20006968, 20006947, 20007218, 20007286; 1♀, Dianba (900m), Wen County, Gansu, 1998.VI.16, Ma Yun, No. 984388; 7♀♀, Mt. Nankun, Longmen, Guangdong, 2003.VII.14–15 /20, Xu Zaifu, Nos. 20050156, 20050261, 20050281, 20050284, 20053652, 20053776, 20053797; 2♀♀, Chebaling, Shixing, Guangdong, 2002.IV.19 /V.25, Xu Zaifu, Nos. 20050468, 20051385; 2♀♀, Guishan, Heyuan, Guangdong, 2002.V.18, ditto, Nos. 20028650, 20028592; 2♀♀, Nanling, Ruyuan, Guangdong, 2003.VII.23, ditto, Nos. 20049310, 20049015; 1♀, Fengxi, Mei- zhou, Guangdong, 2003.VII.29, Chen Jujian, No. 20048787; 1♀, Liuxihe, Conghua, Guangdong, 2003.VII.16, Zhang Zhongrun, No. 20058807; 1♀, Mt. Nankun, Longmen, Guangdong, 2004.V.12, Xu Zaifu, No. 20053166; 1♀, Yuxi, Mt. Jiuwandashan, Guangxi, 2003.VII.27, Wang Yiping, No. 20037287; 1♀, Ganlan Service Center, Mt. Daming, Guangxi, 2011.VIII.7, Liu Zhen, No. 201100979; 8♀♀, Wanjia, Mayanghe, Guizhou, 2007.IX.27–30, Liu Jingxian, Nos. 200708354, 200708365, 200708783, 200708789, 200708559, 200708600, 200708606, 200708212; 1♀, Tongkuanchang, Mt. Fanjing, Guizhou, 2001.VII.28, Piao Meihua, No. 200107294; 1♀, Changqiangou, Xi- shui, Guizhou, 2000.IX.25, Ma Yun, No. 200102530; 3♀♀, Linchang, Mt. Leigong, Guizhou, 2005.V.31 /VI.1, Zhang Hongying, Nos. 200605487, 200605569, 200606820; 5♀♀, Guiyang, Guizhou, 1983.X.20, He Junhua, Nos. 840479, 840484, 840485, 840493, 840494; 1♀, Qinggangtang, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserve, Guizhou, 2010.VI.8, Tang Pu, No. 201000264; 2♀♀, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserve (core area), Guizhou, 2010.VI.8, Tan Jiangli, Nos. 201005479, 201002609; 1♀, Xiangshuwan, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserve, Guizhou, 2010.VI.4, Chai Hongfei, No. 201004059; 1♀, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserve, Guizhou, light trap, 2010.VI.2–5, Zeng Jie, No. 201005640; 1♀, Baishao, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserve, Guizhou, 2010.VI.7, Tang Pu, No. 201004257; 2♀♀, Yinggeling, Hainan, 2007.V.28–VI.3, Weng Liqiong, Nos. 200804219, 200804226; 8♀♀, ditto, 2007.X.18, Liu Jingxian, Nos. 200709839, 200709798, 200709986, 200709929, 200709731, 200709792, 200709812, 200709948; 2♀♀, Shen- longjia, Hubei, 1982.VIII.27–28, He Junhua, No. 825799; 1♀, Railway Station, Lingyuan, Liaoning, 2002.VIII.8, Wang Yiping, No. 20030636; 1♀, Nanxi, Yunnan (coll. in peanut field), 1974.XI.19, Li Weihua, No. 772107; 1♀, Yuanjiang, Yunnan, 1981.IV.4, He Junhua, No. 811426; 2♀♀, Ruili, Yunnan, 1981.V.5, ditto, Nos. 812870, 812867; 1♀, Cangshan, Dali, Yunnan, 1996.V.23, Du Yuzhou, No. 977505; 1♀, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1984.VII.27, Qian Ying, No. 842841; 2♀♀, ditto, 1993.VI.12, Ma Yun, Nos. 934176, 934419; 2♀♀, ditto, 1988.V.16, Lou Xiaoming, Nos. 883226, 884348; 1♀, ditto, 1992.VI.9, ditto, No. 922436; 1♀, ditto, 1984.VI.25, Chen Xuexin, No. 842582; 1♀, ditto, 1983.VI.17, Shi Zuhua, No. 830532; 3♀♀, ditto, 1982.X.9–10, Zhu Kunyan, Nos. 826010, 826065; 1♀, ditto, 1982.X.8, Ma Yun, No. 826181; 1♀, Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, light trap, 1999.VII.26, Zhao Mingshui, No. 999464; 2♀♀, Changzhu, Quzhou, Zhejiang, 1984.V.24, He Junhua, Nos. 844860, 844861; 1♀, Bo- tanic Garden, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 1993.VI.18, He Junhua, No. 934752; 1♀, Mt. Gutian, Kaihua, Zhejiang, 1993. V.26, Wu Hong, No. 949318; 1♀, Mt. Longwang, Anji, Zhejiang, 1993.VIII.31, Chen Xuexin, No. 939803; 1♀, Huangmaojian, Mt. Fengyang, Longquan, Zhejiang, 2007.VII.30, Liu Jingxian, No. 200802894; 1♀, Songyang, Zhejiang, 1989.VII.13, He Junhua, No. 893736; 1♀, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 1983.VI.25, Zhu Kunyan, No. 831723; 1♀, ditto, 1991.VI.28, Chen Xuexin, No. 911328; 2♀♀, Baishanzu, Qingyuan, Zhejiang, 1994.X.26 /VII.19, Wu Hong, Nos. 946402, 946887.   
 Distribution. China (Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan Hubei, Liaoning, Yunnan, Zhejiang).   
 Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens mostly agree with the published descriptions except for wider T2 sometimes.
description: Published as part of Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, pp. 1-205 in Zootaxa 4807 (1) on pages 172-174, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4807.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927639