Apanteles cocotis Wilkinson 1934
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 cocotis

description: Apanteles cocotis Wilkinson, 1934   
(Figures 27, 99, 104f)  
 Apanteles cocotis Wilkinson, 1934: 152. Holotype ♀ (examined)— Java, Indonesia [NHM, Fig. 104f].   
 Diagnosis. Edge of vannal lobe beyond its widest point without fringe of hairs; penultimate flagellomere one and a third times longer than wide; hind femur reddish yellow; vertex between ocelli and eye-margin, and temples, very shiny, almost smooth; mesoscutum shiny with fine punctures; areolation of propodeum not strong, costulae weak, and more or less absent; metacarp very long, fully 7.0 as long as its distance from apex of marginal cell; r obliquely placed on pterostigma and a well-marked angle between it and 2-SR; T1 strongly narrowed towards apex, shiny and weakly sculptured; wings markedly and evenly darkened; spines along upper part of outer side of hind tibia short, stubby, very dense.   
 Host. It has been collected in male flower of coconut (Wilkinson, 1934).   
 Material examined. 1♀, Mt. Wuyi, Fujian, 2007.VIII.22–25, Xie Cuihong, No. 20007156; 1♀, Fuzhou, Fu- jian, 1987. IV, Lin Naiquan, No. 967431; 1♀, Jinshan, Fuzhou, Fujian, 1988.VI.4, Huang Jian, No. 20009038; 1♀, Baiyong, Yangchun, Guangdong, 2002.V.5–6, Xu Zaifu, No. 20028079; 1♀, Huatan, Yangchun, Guangdong, 2002. V.3–4, ditto, No. 20027813; 1♀, Chebaling, Shixing, Guangdong, 2002.VII.27, ditto, No. 20051896; 1♀, ditto, 2002. V.19, ditto, No. 20050484; 1♀, Datianding, Dawuling, Guangdong, 2001.X.3, ditto, No. 20020448; 1♀, Wangdong- cun, Mt. Shiwandashan, Guangxi, 2001.XI.27, Ma Yun, No. 20022255; 2♀♀, Wanjia, Mayanghe, Guizhou, 2007. IX.27–30, Zhu lanlan/Liu Jingxian, Nos. 200708190, 200708627; 1♀, Xiaodanjiang, Mt. Leigong, Guizhou, 2005. VI.4–5, Liu Jingxian, No. 200606541; 2♀♀, Linchang, Mt. Leigong, Guizhou, 2005.V.31, Zhang Hongying, Nos. 200605388, 200605483; 2♀♀, ditto, 2005.VI.1–2, Liu Jingxian, Nos. 200606789, 200606670; 1♀, Fangxiangx- iang, Mt. Leigong (1000m), Guizhou, 2005.VI.3, Zhang Hongying, No. 200605703; 2♀♀, Huguosi, Mt. Fanjin, Guizhou, 2001.VIII.4, Ma Yun, Nos. 200701891, 200701887; 1♀, Jinding, Mt. Fanjin, Guizhou, 1993.VII.10, Chen Xuexin, No. 937491; 2♀♀, Mt. Jiulong, Huishui, Guizhou, 2010.VI.11, Tang Pu, Nos. 201003543, 201003562; 1♀, Shilingou, Kuankuoshui Nature Reseve, Guizhou, 2010.VI.9, Tan Jiangli, No. 201005565; 1♀, Pingtang, Guizhou, 1990, Liu Zhibang, No. 907860; 1♀, Mt. Dongmao, Taiwan, 2011.VI.4, Tang Pu, No. 201104498; 1♀, Mt. Long- wang, Anji, Zhejiang, 1995.VII.13, Wu Hong, No. 971013; 1♀, Dongyang, Zhejiang, 1987.VIII.10, Xu Weiliang, No. 875263; 2♀♀, Mt. Gutian, Zhejiang, 2005.VII.2, Shi Min, Nos. 200611644, 200611599; 3♀♀, ditto, 2005. VII.3, Shi Min, Nos. 200616150, 200616152, 200617233; 4♀♀, ditto, 2005.VII.2–3, Wu Qiong, Nos. 200616770, 200616995, 200617002, 200616981; 1♀, ditto, 2005.VII.3, Chen Xuexin, No. 200616323; 3♀♀, ditto, 2005.VII.2, Shi Min, Nos. 200611524, 200611517, 200611386; 1♀, ditto, 1986.VII.20, Xu Weiliang, No. 863671; 1♀, Mt. Ji- ulong, Suichang, Zhejiang, 1994.VIII.18, Chen Xuexin, No. 944725; 1♀, Ruoliaoxian, Songyang, Zhejiang, 1994. VIII.17, Xu Zaifu, No. 944411; 1♀, Jinshanmen, West Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1999, Zhao Mingshui, No. 20000105; 1♀, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1983.X.3–5, Zhou Caie, No. 834281; 1♀, Botanical garden, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2003. VII.5, Pan Jiadong, No. 20056093; 1♀, Wencheng, Zhejiang, 1985. IX, Liu Fuming, No. 853191.   
 Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Taiwan, Zhejiang) new record; Indonesia.   
 Remarks. Characters of the examined specimens mostly agree with the published description and type specimen, except for the brownish wings (Fig. 27b).
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 60-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4807.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927639