Apanteles dissimile Nixon 1965
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 dissimile

description: Apanteles dissimile Nixon, 1965   
(Figures 33, 100)  
 Apanteles dissimile Nixon, 1965: 93. Holotype ♀ —Severo Osetinskaya Respublika, Russia [ZIRAS]. Chen & Song, 2004: 48.   
 Diagnosis. Body length 2.8 mm, fore wing length 3.4 mm. Body black, hind femur bright yellow. Ocelli very large, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus transecting posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus distinctly shorter than diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna slightly shorter than body length, penultimate flagellomere 1.3× longer than wide. Interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum slightly shorter than its diameter. Areola on propodeum strongly defined, V-shaped apically, closed with strong costulae. Pterostigma 2.6× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.3× longer than pterostigma, vein r 2.5× longer than vein 2-SR, weakly angled at junction. T1 constricted towards apex, wedge-shaped, 3.8× longer than hind width, turned-over part dull, strongly rugose-punctate, longitudinal channel long; T2 shiny and polished, 3.8× wider than long in the middle sulcus between, T2 and T3 indistinct; T3 2.0× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath 1.2× longer than hind tibia.   
 Material examined. 1♀, Sha County, Fujian, 1980.XI.1, He Junhua, No. 803815; 1♀, Jinshan, Fuzhou, Fu- jian, 1989.IX.30, Lin Xiaolin, No. 20009292; 1♀, Nanjing, Fujian, 1991.VI.6, Pan Shen, No. 969555; 1♀, Letu, Nanjing, Fujian, 1991.V.23, ditto, No. 20006064; 1♀, Mt. Longxi, Jiangle, Fujian, 1991.VII.1, Liu Changming, No. 20006432; 1♀, Mt. Dayao (16km), Jinxiu, Guangxi, 1982.VI.14, He Junhua, No. 822924; 1♀, Huixiangping, Mt. Fanjing, Guizhou, 1993.VII.11, Xu Zaifu, No. 935630; 1♀, Hongshulin, Dongzhaigang, Haikou, Hainan, 2007. V.6–8, Zhang Kuiyan, No. 200807707; 1♀, Jianfengling, Hainan, 2007.VI.5–7, Weng Liqiong, No. 200806404; 1♀, Yangjiaping, Mt. Xiaowutaishan, Hebei, 2005.VIII.20, Zhang Hongying, No. 200611820; 1♀, Yangchanggou, Neixiang, Henan, 1998.VII.13, Chen Xuexin, No. 986081; 1♀, Mt. Jigong, Henan, 1998.VII.13, Chen Xuexin, No. 986081; 1♀, ditto, 1997.VII.11, ditto, No. 973775; 1♀, Sanhecun, Mt. Huping, Hunan, 2009.VII.13, Ma Li, No. 200900935; 1♀, Shuawucun, Mt. Huping, Hunan, 2009.VII.10, Zeng Jie, No. 200901773; 4♀♀, Fuxin, Liaoning, 1995.VIII.16–23, Lou Juxian, Nos. 961277, 961298, 961271, 961230; 1♀, Mt. Beishou, Gaoxiong, Taiwan, 2011. V.29, Tang Pu, No. 201104488; 1♀, Kending Forest Park, Pingdong, Taiwan, 2011.V.31, Tang Pu, No. 201104917; 1♀, Jietouxiang, Tengchong, Yunnan, 2006.VII.11–12, Zeng Jie, No. 200801683; 1♀, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1986.X.21, Zhao Jianqun, No. 8600138; 1♀, Mt. Gutian, Zhejiang, 2005.VII.2, Wu Qiong, No. 200616905; 1♀, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 1986.V.26, Zhu Kunyan, No. 861725.   
 Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Hunan, Jilin, Liaoning, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); Philippines, Vietnam.   
 Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens mostly agree with the published descriptions except hind femur brownish.
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 74-76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4807.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927639