Pristaulacus comptipennis Enderlein 1912
Creators: name: Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio
name: Smith, David R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Aulacidae
Pristaulacus
Pristaulacus comptipennis

description: Pristaulacus comptipennis Enderlein 1912   
(Figs 19–27)  
 Pristaulacus comptipennis Enderlein 1912: 265; 1913: 319, 326; Hedicke 1939: 7; Konishi 1990: 652; 1991: 564; Smith 2001: 282; Turrisi 2007: 28; Turrisi et al. 2009: 56.   
 Type material. According to Enderlein (1912), the type material includes eight females. Turrisi (2007) designated a lectotype and two paralectotypes (SDEI, examined).   
 Material examined. See Turrisi (2007). Additional specimens: Japan, Kagoshima Prefecture, Amami-ôshima, Mount Yui-dake, 2.VII.2004, 2♀, Hiroshi Makihara leg. (Malaise trap) (TUAE); same data, 27.VII.2004, 1♀ (TUAE); Japan, Okinawa-hontô, Oku, Kunigami-son, 10.VII.2003, 1♀, H. Makihara leg. (at light) (DBAC); Japan, Kohama-jima (Yaeyama Islands, Ryukyus), 24°20'N, 123°58'E, 1♂ ex larva, emerged 7.VII.2007, from Ficus superba var. japonica Miq. collected 21.II.2007, together with Olenecamptus bilobus nipponensis Dillon & Dillon; Taiwan, Hoozan, 7.IX.1910, 1♀, H. Sauter leg. (labelled as “Cotypus”) (NHRS); Taiwan, Keelung, 1910, 1♂, Victor Kühne leg. (USNM); Laos, Bolikhamsai Province, Ban Nape environs, 350 m a.s.l., 18°20'N, 105°08'E, 1♀, Jendek & Sausa leg. (OLML); China: Hong Kong, Tai Po Kau Forest, 50Q KK 094 813, 370 m, 21.VI.2006, 1♀, C. Barthélémy leg. (DBAC).   
 Description. See Enderlein (1912). Redescriptions and data on intraspecific variation are provided by Konishi (1990, 1991) and Turrisi (2007).   
 Distribution. Japan (Amami-ôshima, Okinawa-hontô, Iriomote-jima, Kohama-jima); China (Hong Kong), Taiwan, Laos (Enderlein 1912, 1913; Konishi 1990, 1991; Turrisi 2007) (Fig. 186).   
 Remarks. This species is newly recorded for Laos, extending its range considerably westward. It is also newly recorded for Amami-ôshima and Kohama-jima (Fig. 186). The three females collected on Amami-ôshima differ from the specimens from Taiwan in having very reduced wing markings, with only one moderately wide brown spot below stigma. A similar colour variation was reported by Konishi (1991), who recorded reduced and paler wing markings in specimens from Okinawa-hontô Island compared with specimens from Iriomote-jima and Taiwan. He concluded that a reduction of wing markings occurs from south (Taiwan and Iriomote-jima) to north (Okinawa-hontô). Our observations seem to confirm such clinal variation, with the northernmost specimens from Amami-ôshima Island having the extreme reduction of wing markings.   
 Biology. The probable host is Ceresium elongatum Matsushita (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), which emerged from dead wood of an unidentified tree species (Konishi 1991). Based on the specimen from Kohama-jima, we add a possible new host, Olenecamptus bilobus nipponensis Dillon & Dillon (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), obtained from wood of Ficus superba var. japonica Miq. (Moraceae).
description: Published as part of Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio & Smith, David R., 2011, Systematic revision and phylogeny of the endemic southeastern Asian Pristaulacus comptipennis species group (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae) 2959, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 2959 (1) on pages 14-17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2959.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281410