Glypta karasawensis Watanabe & Maeto, 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
name: Maeto, Kaoru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Glypta
Glypta karasawensis

description: Glypta karasawensis sp. nov.
(Figs. 1 K, 2 K, 3 J, 5 C, 6 K, 7 K)
Description: Female (n=1: holotype). Body length 8.0 mm.
Head. Ca. 0.6 times as long as wide. Clypeus 0.7 times as long as wide, roundly convex in lateral view (Fig. 2 K). Face strongly convex medially (Fig. 2 K), 0.5 times as long as wide. Frons with a small median horn between each antennal socket, its apex relateively pointed (Figs. 1 K, 3 J). OOL 1.4 times as long as OD; POL 1.8 times as long as OD. Mandible with narrow ventral flange by basal 0.7, its base flat. MSL 0.8 times as long as BWM. Antenna with 36 flagellomeres. F1 1.5 times as long as F2.
Mesosoma. Punctate, punctures on lateral lobes of mesoscutum (excluding near notaulus) separated by 0.3–2.5 (usually ca. 2.0) times their diameter. Epomia weak and short. Lateral area of pronotum entirely punctate. Both sides of mesoscutum near tegula weakly produced posteriorly. Propodeum entirely densely punctate. Posterior transverse carina and pleural carina of propodeum complete. Lateral section of anterior transverse carina of propodeum slightly present. Anterior part of lateromedian longitudinal carina of propodeum present. Lateral longitudinal carina of propodeum largely absent. Fore wing length 7.0 mm. Fore coxa with weak ridge anterodorsally. Hind femur 6.2 times as long as maximum depth in lateral view. Hind TS1 2.1 times as long as TS2.
Metasoma. T1–T4 punctate (Figs. 6 K, 7 K). T1 1.2 times as long as maximum width, its median dorsal carina present on ca. basal 0.5 of tergite (Fig. 6 K). T2 0.9 times as long as maximum width. T2–T4 each with moderate a pair of oblique groove (Fig. 7 K). Ovipositor sheath ca. 1.0 times as long as fore wing, 2.4 times as long as hind tibia.
Colouration. Body (excluding wings and legs) black, except for: apical part of clypeus, mandible excluding apex and base, palpi, posterodorsal corner of pronotum, tegula, membranous parts of sternites and posterior part of subgenital plate yellowish-brown; ventral surface of flagellum and posterior margin of each metasomal tergite tinged with reddish-brown; scape, pedicel, dorsal surface of flagellum blackish-brown; ovipositor reddish-brown to yellowish-brown. Wings hyaline; veins and pterostigma yellowish-brown except for yellow wing base. Legs (hind leg: Fig. 5 C) reddish-brown, except for: all trochanters, base of all tibiae, base of hind tibial spurs and basal areas of hind TS1–TS3 pale yellow; hind femur darkened apically; subbasal band and apical part of hind tibia blackishbrown to black; hind tarsus blackish-brown to black with basal yellow area on TS1–TS3 and slightly on TS4. Basal yellow areas of TS1 0.2 length of TS1 and of TS2–TS3 present only basally.
Male. Unknown.
Material examined. JAPAN: [Holotype] F, Nagano Pref., Karasawa, 26–28. viii. 1967, H. Higuchi leg. (KU).
Distribution (Fig. 13). Japan (Honshu).
Biology. Unknown.
Etymology. The specific name is from the type locality “Karasawa”.
Remarks. This species has been confused with G. cymolomiae and its allied species but they can be distinguished from each other by the above key and Table 1. This species resembles G. tegularis in having horn with separated edge but it can be distinguished by the coxae reddish-brown (black in tegularis) and the apex of ovipositor without tubercle (with small tubercle in tegularis). This species also resembles G. caudata and G. nipponica sp. nov., but it can easily be distinguished by the horn with separated edge (without edge in caudata and nippocica) and the mandible with yellow spot (without spot in caudata and nippocica).
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei & Maeto, Kaoru, 2014, Taxonomic status of the subgenus Conoblasta Förster 1869 of the genus Glypta Gravenhorst 1829 with revision of Japanese species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 3755 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/285449