Tiphia (Tiphia) dayi Krombein 1982
Creators: name: Han, Qian
name: Wang, He-Sheng
name: Chen, Bin
name: Li, Ting-Jing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tiphiidae
Tiphia
Tiphia dayi

description: Tiphia (Tiphia) dayi Krombein, 1982, new record
(Figs 80–88)
Tiphia (Tiphia) dayi Krombein, 1982: 15, 19, 63–66; Boni Bartalucci, 2010: 124.
Material examined. 1♀, 10♁, China, Yunnan prov., Baoshan City, Tengchong County, Jietou Town, Gaoligong Mountain, Yangjia Foot (Malaise trap), 25°1′23″N, 98°2′31″E, 1951 m, 16–30.VIII.2019, Lang Yi (CNU).
Diagnosis. Female (Fig. 80). Body length 12.5 mm, forewing length 9.3 mm. Mandible (Fig. 82) without distinct medial transverse groove and preapical denticle, atmost with obsolete intermittent impressed line; clypeus (Fig. 82) basally with dense punctures and apically smooth, apex medially subtruncated; upper frons and vertex with sparser punctures than lower frons (Figs 82, 84); pronotal anterior carina absent; pronotum latero-ventrally (Fig. 85) with weak groove in middle, area above groove smooth, area below groove with dense oblique striae; mesopleuron (Fig. 85) with sparse punctures mixed with dense minute punctures; tegula atmost slightly longer than middle width, posterior margin without transverse impressed line; inner face of hind basitarsus medially with longitudinal groove; second intercubital vein of forewing slightly sinuous; horizontal area of propodeal dorsal face (Fig. 86) almost impunctate, with several sparse punctures, oblique area reticulate and without submarginal carina, posteriorly with short longitudinal striae connecting transverse carina; propodeal areola (Fig. 86) rectangular, APWL=4.9: 5.1: 11.3, medial longitudinal carina reaching posterior 4/5 of areola; subposterior area of T1 (Fig. 80) close to apex and with irregularly scattered punctures; S1 with sparse minute punctures and weak posterolateral groove; anterior half of pygidium (Fig. 88) with dense punctures, and posterior half impunctate.
Male (Fig. 81). Body length 6.3–7.4 mm, forewing length 4.7–5.8 mm. Mandible (Fig. 83) with preapical denticle and obsolete intermittent impressed line; clypeus (Fig. 83) with sparse punctures, apex medially emarginated; lower frons (Fig. 83) with dense punctures, upper frons with sparse punctures; pronotal anterior carina (Fig. 81) complete; mesoscutellum and metanotum with sparse punctures (Fig. 87); tegula atmost slightly longer than middle width, posterior margin with transverse impressed line; apex of marginal cell of forewing (Fig. 81) distinctly exceeding second submarginal cell; propodeal areola (Fig. 87) rectangular, almost parallel posteriorly, APWL=3.1: 2.8: 4.9, medial longitudinal carina extending posterior margin of areola; T1 (Fig. 81) slightly elongate, 1.3× as long as wide, subposterior area with 2 transverse rows of punctures; S5 with lateral denticle, and without deep orifice.
Distribution. China (Yunnan); Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Han, Qian, Wang, He-Sheng, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the nominotypical subgenus Tiphia Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from China, with three new species and a key to the Chinese species, pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 5284 (1) on pages 28-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7918890