Jucancistrocerus (Jucancistrocerus) tachkensis
Creators: name: Li, Ting-Jing
name: Bai, Yue
name: Chen, Bin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Jucancistrocerus
Jucancistrocerus tachkensis

description: Jucancistrocerus (Jucancistrocerus) tachkensis (Dalla Torre, 1889)
(Figs 47–55)
Odynerus ornatus André, 1884: 713 [junior secondary homonym of Ancistrocerus ornatus Smith, 1852, and Leptochilus ornatus de Saussure, 1853, both placed by Dalla Torre in Odynerus]; Kostylev, 1940: 41 (tashkensis [!]).
Odynerus tachkensis Dalla Torre, 1889: 125. Replacement name.
Stenancistrocerus ornatus: Blüthgen, 1939: 256.
Jucancistrocerus ornatus: Blüthgen, 1955: 401.
Jucancistrocerus tachkensis: Giordani Soika, 1970: 106, figs. 38, 39; van der Vecht and Fischer, 1972: 64. Li, 1985: 124, fig. VI-4 (misidentification); Gusenleitner, 2013: 40.
Jucancistrocerus lepidus Gusenleitner, 1973: 323.
Material examined. 1♀, China, Xinjiang, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Huocheng County, near the Train Station, 44.061°′N, 80.840°E, 846 m, 26.VII.2019, Tingjing Li; 1♀, China, Xinjiang, Hemu County, Nongyi Town, 19.VII.2015, Hongying Hu; 2♂, China, Xinjiang, Altay, Habahe County, Kulbai Town, Gulek Village, 48.281°′N, 86.235°E, 80 m, 22.VII.2019, Tingjing Li; 1♀ 1♂, China, Xinjiang, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Huocheng County, Qingshuihe Town, Shuanggou Village, 44.182°′N, 80.685°E, 688 m, 26.VII.2019, Tingjing Li; 1♂, China, Xinjiang, Karamay, Jinlong Town, near the Ayikul Reservoir, 45.526°′N, 84.916°E, 279 m, 23.VII.2019, Tingjing Li.
Notes. According to references and specimens, it is verified that J. (J.) tachkensis (Dalla Torre, 1889) (Fig VI-4, in Li 1985) was misidentified, and Li’s (1985) specimens actually belong to Pararrhynchium ornatum multifasciatum Giordani Soika, 1986. To date, J. (J.) tachkensis is distributed in Xinjiang rather than Jiangsu, Zhejiang or Sichuan of China.
Diagnosis. This species, Jucancistrocerus (Jucancistrocerus) tachkensis, is similar to J. (J.) alashanicus with almost the same color pattern (Figs 47–54), but its clypeus sculpture is obviously coarser and denser (Figs 49–50), the tegula has bigger and denser punctures (Fig. 51). The clypeus is densely and coarsely punctate, punctures a little sparser in males, the clypeus in females is wider than (1.11×) long and in males longer than wide (1.15×) and apically with deep and rounded emargination in both sexes, apex relatively narrower (female apical width: depth of emargination = 2.89, male apical width: depth of emargination = 2.57); male A13 backward, not reaching the apex of A11 (Fig. 54). Propodeal margin between dorsal and lateral surfaces with tooth-like protuberance; T1 (Fig. 52) wider than (1.48×) long and narrower than (0.76 ×) T2; volsella (Fig. 55) apically narrower and sharper, penis valve (Fig. 55) near the base distinctly with one angular protrusion.
Distribution. China (new record: Xinjiang); Uzbekistan; Turkmenistan; Afghanistan; Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Li, Ting-Jing, Bai, Yue & Chen, Bin, 2022, A revision of the genus Jucancistrocerus Blüthgen, 1938 from China, with review of three related genera (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5105 (3) on pages 408-410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/6332849