Zimankos mahunkai
Creators: name: Wang, Chunhong
name: He, Junhua
name: Chen, Xuexin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Zimankos
Zimankos mahunkai

description: Zimankos mahunkai (Móczár, 1981)
Fig. 19
Sulcomesitius mahunkai Móczár, 1981: 359–360.
Zimankos mahunkai – Azevedo et al. 2018: 207.
Material examined (27 ♂♂)
CHINA – Fujian • 1 ♂; Chongan, Qilichang; 25 Jul. 1985; Minghui Liu leg.; ZJUH 202300003 • 1 ♂; Minqing, Xiongjiang; 13–17 Jul. 2005; Zaifu Xu leg.; ZJUH 200609183. – Hainan • 3 ♂♂; Bawangling; 7–11 Jul. 2006; Jingxian Liu leg.; ZJUH 200700006, 200700086, 200700129 • 4 ♂♂; Jianfengling; 12–15 Jul. 2006; Liqiong Weng leg.; ZJUH 200700404, 200700405, 200700471, 200700503 • 5 ♂♂; Jianfengling; 12–15 Jul. 2006; Wenyong Zhang leg.; ZJUH 200700651, 200700653, 200700657, 200700660, 200700673 • 1 ♂; Jianfengling; 12–15 Jul. 2006; Feitian Chen leg.; ZJUH 200700712 • 1 ♂; Diaoluoshan; 16–17 Jul. 2006; Wenyong Zhang leg.; ZJUH 200701506 • 1 ♂; Diaoluoshan; 16–17 Jul. 2006; Tianfei Chen leg.; ZJUH 200701562 • 1 ♂; Wuzhishan, Suiman; 16–18 May 2007; Jiezeng leg.; ZJUH 201800023 • 4 ♂♂; Yinggeling; 28 May–3 Jun. 2007; Liqiong Weng leg.; ZJUH 200706916, 200706929, 200706936, 200706938 • 2 ♂♂; Baisha, Nankai County; 20 Jun. 2008; Jingxian Liu leg.; ZJUH 200800021, 200800025. – Guangxi • 1 ♂; Guilin, Maoershan; 2–10 Aug. 2005; Binxiao leg.; ZJUH 200609382. – Yunnan • 1 ♂; Yingjiang, Tongbiguan; 23 Jun. 2005; Jingxian Liu leg.; ZJUH 200609151 • 1 ♂; Gaoligong Mountain; 20–21 Jul. 2006; Jie Zeng leg.; ZJUH 200701075.
Re-description
Male
MEASUREMENTS (n = 27). LH 0.95–0.99 × WH; WF 1.16–1.45 × LE; LE 0.43–0.49 × LH; LE 1.46–2.12 × DEV; POL 1.49–1.87 × AOL; OOL 0.69–0.91× WOT; DPV 0.78–1.57× DAO; median length of dorsal pronotal area 0.43–0.51 × width along posterior pronotal margin; median length of dorsal surface of MPC 1.07–1.21 × its half-width; length of PPP 0.21–0.31 × median length of dorsal surface of MPC; length of hypopygium 1.90–2.42× its width; length of posterior branches 0.39–0.52 × length of hypopygium.
COLOURATION. Body black. Mandible brown; maxillary and labial palpi brown. Antenna brown, darker apically. Fore wing hyaline, yellowish brown; veins yellowish brown to brown, pterostigma yellowish brown. Legs brown, trochanters, tibiae and tarsi yellowish brown. T 1 dark brown, T 2 black with posterior and lateral margin brown; T 3–4 brown.
PUBESCENCE. Body with short setae. Maxillary and labial palpi with dense, short setae. Antenna with short, suberect setae, 0.33× width of flagellomere I (Fig. 19C). Eye with sparse, short setae, nearly 5.0× diameter of an ommatidium. Wings with short, dense brown setae. Setae of metasoma longer than setae of head and mesosoma, T 1 nearly glabrous, T 2 with basal triangular area glabrous.
HEAD. Slightly shorter than wide, LH 0.97 × WH. Clypeus trilobite, medio-clypeal lobe with anterior margin acute medially; medio-clypeal carina not extending into frons, arched in lateral view. Antenna slender. Frons coriaceous and densely foveolate, median frontal line absent (Fig. 19B); WF 1.16× LE. Contour of eye protruding in antero-dorsal view; LE 0.49 × LH, LE 2.12 × DEV. Anterior ocellus partly anterior to imaginary top line of eyes in antero-dorsal view; POL 1.52× AOL, OOL 0.83 × WOT, DPV 0.93 × DAO. Vertex coriaceous and densely foveolate, sides of head behind eyes rounded, vertex crest protruding. Gena coriaceous, densely foveolate, with shallow foveolae ventrally. Occipital carina complete. Medioccipito-genal suture present.
MESOSOMA. Dorsal pronotal area coriaceous, with shallower and bigger foveae than on head, median length of dorsal pronotal area 0.44× width along posterior pronotal margin, anterolateral corner projected; median pronotal sulcus present and weakly foveolate (Fig. 19D); lateral pronotal area obliquely striate; cervical pronotal area coarse. Mesoscutum elevated, coriaceous, with punctures; median mesonotal sulcus present as a big fovea near posterior margin (Fig. 19D); notauli complete and converging posteriorly, parapsidal signum shallow and absent near anterior margin. Mesoscutellum coriaceous and foveolate; mesoscutum-mesoscutellar sulcus present, laterally dilated (Fig. 19E). Median length of dorsal surface of MPC 1.15 × half-width; metapostnotum strongly areolate, metapostnotal median carina complete, metapostnotal-propodeal carina complete and converging posteriorly; dorsal propodeal area transversely striate; paraspiracular and lateral marginal carinae of MPC complete; length of PPP 0.26× as long as median length of dorsal surface of MPC, transverse posterior carina of MPC complete (Fig. 19E); propodeal declivity weakly areolate, median and lateral carinae complete; anterior metapleural area shiny, weakly striate; lateral surface of MPC areolate, submarginal and posterior carinae present. Propleuron coriaceous, foveolate near procoxa. Mesopleuron coriaceous and densely foveolate; subalar impression weak; posterior oblique sulcus of mesopleuron absent; postepicnemial sulcus present; ventral surface of mesopleuron coriaceous and shallowly foveolate; anterior mesofurcal pit present and deep.
WINGS. Fore wing with 2r-rs&Rs 2 v slightly curved apically; posterior margin of pterostigma protruding, prestigma absent (Fig. 19G); Cu 2 v present as light yellowish-brown trace. Hind wing with four distal hamuli.
METASOMA. Metasomal terga shiny, with punctures; T 1 with shiny, sparse punctures, medio-longitudinal sulcus present at basal one-third; T 2 with punctures (Fig. 19G). Metasomal sterna shiny, with variably sized punctures; S1 irregularly striate, metapostnotal median carina weak; S2 with dense, variably sized punctures. Hypopygium longer than wide; lateral and anterior margin of basal part of hypopygium distinctly incurved (Fig. 19H); posterior branches 0.39 × as long as length of hypopygium, distinctly narrower than median notch; apical margin of posterior branches and bottom of posterior median notch with long setae.
MALE GENITALIA. Harpe bilobate, dorsal harpe filamentary (Fig. 19I), ventral harpe finger-like, with long setae (Fig. 19J). Cuspis with apical margin incurved; digitus bent and papillate apically, with setae basally; aedeagus bottle-shaped (Fig. 19I).
Female
Unknown.
Distribution
China (Fujian, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan) (Fig. 20), Vietnam. New record for China.
description: Published as part of Wang, Chunhong, He, Junhua & Chen, Xuexin, 2024, Revision of subfamily Mesitiinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from China, pp. 1-61 in European Journal of Taxonomy 960 (1) on pages 56-58, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.960.2679, http://zenodo.org/record/13941658