Nipponaetes haeussleri
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Nipponaetes
Nipponaetes haeussleri

description: Nipponaetes haeussleri (Uchida, 1933)
(SJN: Kobu-togari-himebachi)
(Figs 57A–D, 62E, 65W)
Hemiteles (Nipponaetes) haeussleri Uchida, 1933b: 159.
Description. Female (n=3). Body length 3.3–3.4 mm. Body covered with silver setae.
Head. Clypeus 1.8 times as wide as maximum length, its anterior margin truncate (Fig. 57B), its median part slightly concave. Face polished, densely punctate, with a median strong convexity (Figs 57A, B, 62E). MSL 1.3 times as long as BWM. Frons, vertex, and gena matt. OOL shorter than POL. Occipital carina complete, joined with hypostomal carina distant from mandibular base. Upper tooth of mandible distinctly longer than lower tooth. Base of mandible flat.Antenna with 20 flagellomeres.
Mesosoma. Lateral part of pronotum largely granulate, with epomia. Mesoscutum granulate and polished, with distinct notaulus. Scutellum polished, coriaceous, lateral carina present except for apex. Mesopleuron polished, granulate except for smooth speculum. Metapleuron granulate, with a complete juxtacoxal carina. Propodeal carinae complete and strong (Fig. 65W). Propodeum polished and irregularly or transversally rugulose. Length of fore wing 2.9–3.3 mm. Fore wing without areolet (Fig. 57D). Nervellus subvertical, intercepted near the middle (Fig. 57A). Hind femur 5.0 times as long as maximum depth in lateral view. Hind TS I: II: III: IV: V = 2.0: 0.9: 0.6: 0.4: 0.5. Tarsal claws simple.
Metasoma. T I 1.4–1.5 times as long as maximum width, longitudinally striated medially and laterally. Median dorsal carina of T I present except for posterior part. Dorsolateral carina of T I complete. T II granulate, sometimes covered with longitudinal striae anteriorly and oblique striae posteriorly except for smooth area on posterior part (Figs 57C, E). T III to T V sparsely punctate except for weak, oblique striae on antero-lateral area of T III. Ovipositor sheath 0.75 times as long as hind tibia. Ovipositor straight, without a nodus.
Coloration (Figs 57A–D). Body (excluding wings and legs) black to blackish brown. Ventral part of scape and pedicel and base of FL I reddish brown. Mandible yellow except for darkened apex. A small spot of malar space, palpi, and tegula yellow. T II more or less tinged with reddish brown. Membranous part of metasomal sternites and ovipositor yellowish brown. Wings hyaline. Veins and pterostigma yellowish brown to brown. Legs reddish brown to yellowish brown. Apex of hind femur and base and apical parts of hind tibia blackish brown. Apical part of T I and T III to T VII sometimes tinged with dark reddish brown.
Male. Not studied in this study.
Materials examined. JAPAN: KPM-NK 81832, F, Osaka Pref., Takatsuki City, Kanmaki, 29. IV. 2011, M. Ito leg.; KU, F (det. Momoi), Miyazaki Pref., Miyazaki, Yamashiro, 12. VII. 1964, K. Yasumatsu & T. Nishida leg. KOREA: SEHU, F (holotype), Keikido, Suigen, 30. X.
Distribution. Japan (Honshu*, Kyushu, Amamioshima Is., and Okinawajima Is.); Korea, the Philippines, and India
Bionomics. Host record: Grapholita molesta (Busck, 1916) (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) (Uchida, 1933b; Japan); Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday, 1834) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) (He, 1984; China); Egg sac of Araneida (Araneae) (Broad et al., 2004; India). The above specimen deposited in KU is collected by sweeping in paddy field.
Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Honshu.
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei, 2021, Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Study of the Japanese Phygadeuontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 17 New Species, pp. 55-136 in Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 50 on page 124, DOI: 10.32225/bkpmnh.2021.50_55, http://zenodo.org/record/12774639