Aphelopus niger Xu & He 1999
Creators: name: Xu, Zaifu
name: Olmi, Massimo
name: He, Junhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae
Aphelopus
Aphelopus niger

description: 17. Aphelopus niger Xu & He, 1999
(Plate 8B)
Aphelopus niger Xu & He 1999c (March): 2; He & Xu 2002: 76.
Aphelopus nigricornis Xu, He & Olmi 1999a (December): 90; type locality: Mt. Tianmushan (Zhejiang, China); He & Xu 2002: 59; syn. nov.
Description of Female. Fully winged; length 1.8–1.9 mm. Head black, except mandible yellow; antenna blackbrown; mesosoma black; metasoma black; fore- and midleg grey, except tarsal segments 4–5 brown; hindleg grey, except coxa partly brown, femur partly brown, tibia brown and tarsal segments 4–5 brown. Antenna clavate; antennal segments in following proportions: 2.8:2.3:2.8:3.0:3.0:3.0:3.0:2.7:2.7:4.0. Head dull, granulated; frontal line complete; POL = 3.4; OL = 2.0; OOL = 2.0; OPL = 2.0; TL = 2.0; greatest breadth of posterior ocelli shorter than OPL (1.0:2.0); occipital carina complete. Scutum dull, granulated. Notauli incomplete, reaching approximately 0.8 length of scutum (about 0.7 in specimens from China, Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region, Fengtai Forest Farm, and Guizhou, Kuankuoshui). Scutellum shiny, granulated. Mesopleuron slightly granulated. Metanotum shiny, smooth. Propodeum without transverse keel between dorsal and posterior surface; dorsal surface reticulate rugose; posterior surface with two longitudinal keels, median area smooth and lateral areas reticulate rugose. Fore wing hyaline, without dark transverse bands. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.
Description of Male. Fully winged; length 2.4 mm. Head black, except mandible whitish (in specimen from China, Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region, Longtan Forest Farm, clypeus with anterior half testaceous and posterior half brown; in specimen from China, Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region, Guamagou, clypeus uniformly brown); antenna black; mesosoma black; metasoma black; legs black, except tibiae and club of profemur testaceous. Antenna filiform; antennal segments in following proportions: 2.5:2.5:3.5:4.0:4.5:5.3:5.0:5.0:5.0 (last segment missing in examined specimen). Head dull, granulated; frontal line almost complete, only absent in front of anterior ocellus; POL = 3.8; OL = 2.0; OOL = 2.8; OPL = 1.4; TL = 2.2; greatest breadth of posterior ocelli shorter than OPL (1.0:1.4); occipital carina complete. Scutum dull, granulated. Notauli incomplete, reaching approximately 0.65 length of scutum. Scutellum dull, granulated. Mesopleuron slightly granulated. Metanotum shiny, smooth. Propodeum without transverse keel between dorsal and posterior surface; dorsal surface reticulate rugose; posterior surface with four little distinct longitudinal keels, median area smooth and lateral areas striate, not rugose. Fore wing hyaline, without dark transverse bands. Basivolsella (Plate 8B) with outer process and one subdistal bristle. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.
Material examined. Types: ♂ holotype of A. niger: CHINA: Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmushan, 2–4.VI.1992, Zuhua Shi leg. (ZJUC); ♀ holotype of A. nigricornis: CHINA: Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmushan, 30°02'N 119°07'E, 1–3.VII.1985, Fuming Liu leg. (ZJUC). Paratypes of A. nigricornis: CHINA: Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmushan, 16.VIII.1998, Malaise trap, Mingshui Zhao leg., 1♀ (ZJUC); CHINA: Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmushan, 5.IX.1998, Malaise trap, Mingshui Zhao leg., 2♀♀ (ZJUC). Other material. CHINA: Guizhou, Kuankuoshui, 5.VI.2010, Pu Tang leg., 1♀ (SCAU); Guizhou, Mt. Leigongshan, 1.VI.2005, Jingxian Liu leg., 1♂ (ZJUC); Henan, Mt. Funiushan, 11.VII.1996, Ping Cai leg., 1♂ (ZJUC); Henan, Luanchuan, 12.VII.1996, Ping Cai leg., 1♂ (ZJUC); Taiwan, Hwalien, Tayuling, 2560 m, 24–26.VI.1977, K.S. Lin leg. (AMNH); Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmushan, 21–25.VII.2011, Huayan Chen & Chengyuan Jin leg., 1♀ (SCAU). Palaearctic: CHINA: Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region, Mt. Liupanshan, Fengtai Forest Farm, 28.VI.2008, Jingxian Liu leg., 1♀ (SCAU); Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region, Jingyuan, Mt. Liupanshan, 11.VII.2008, Jingxian Liu leg., 1♂ (SCAU); Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region, Jingyuan, Longtan Forest Farm, 6.VII.2008, Jiemin Yao leg., 2♂ and 1♀ (SCAU); Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region, Pengyang, Mt. Liupanshan, Guamagou, 10.VII.2008, Jiemin Yao leg., 2♂ (SCAU); Ningxia Hui Nationality Autonomous Region, Jingyuan, Mt. Liupanshan, Hongshan Forest Farm, 1–2.VII.2008, Jiemin Yao leg., 2♂ (SCAU); Shanxi, Lishan National Nature Reserve, Xiachuan Protection Station, 17–21.VIII.2012, YPT, Yajun Ren leg., 1♀ (SCAU).
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. China (Zhejiang, Guizhou, Henan, Taiwan, Ningxia, Shanxi).
Remarks. Aphelopus nigricornis Xu, He & Olmi, 1999 (December), described on the basis of one female specimen, should be the opposite sex of Aphelopus niger Xu & He, 1999 (March), described on the basis of 1♂ specimen. The morphology of both sexes is in fact similar. For this reason they are considered synonyms and A. niger gains priority over A. nigricornis.
description: Published as part of Xu, Zaifu, Olmi, Massimo & He, Junhua, 2013, Dryinidae of the Oriental region (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), pp. 1-460 in Zootaxa 3614 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5278372