Glypta chinensis Uchida 1952
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
name: Maeto, Kaoru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Glypta
Glypta chinensis

description: Glypta chinensis (Uchida 1952)
(Figs. 1 B, 2 B, 3 A, 4 B, 6 B, 7 B)
Conoblasta chinensis Uchida 1952: 50
Description based on Japanese specimens: Female (n=3). Body length 6.0– 7.5 mm.
Head. Ca. 0.6 times as long as wide. Clypeus 0.7 times as long as wide, roundly convex in lateral view (Fig. 2 B). Face weakly convex medially (Fig. 2 B), 0.5 times as long as wide. Frons with a small median horn between each antennal socket, its apex relatively pointed (Figs. 1 B, 3 A). OOL 1.4–1.6 times as long as OD; POL 1.6–1.8 times as long as OD. Mandible with narrow ventral flange by basal 0.6, its base flat. MSL 1.2 times as long as BWM. Antenna with 34 flagellomeres. F1 1.5–1.6 times as long as F2.
Mesosoma. Punctate, punctures on lateral lobes of mesoscutum (excluding near notaulus) separated by 0.3–2.0 (usually ca. 1.0) times their diameter. Epomia weak and short. Lateral area of pronotum entirely punctate except for ventral area longitudinally striated. Both sides of mesoscutum near tegula weakly and obtusely produced posteriorly. Propodeum entirely densely punctate. Anterior transverse carina of propodeum slightly present on lateral section. Lateromedian longitudinal carina of propodeum present on anterior section. Lateral longitudinal carina of propodeum largely absent. Posterior transverse carina of propodeum complete. Fore wing length 5.0–6.0 mm. Fore coxa with weak ridge antero-dorsally. Hind femur 5.8–6.0 times as long as maximum depth in lateral view. Hind TS1 2.0–2.1 times as long as TS2.
Metasoma. T1-T4 densely punctate (Figs. 6 B, 7 B). T1 1.2 times as long as maximum width, its median dorsal carina present on ca. basal 0.5 of tergite (Fig. 6 B). T2 1.0 times as long as maximum width (Fig. 7 B). T2–T4 each with moderate a pair of oblique groove (Fig. 7 B). Ovipositor sheath ca. 1.0 times as long as fore wing, 2.4–2.6 times as long as hind tibia.
Colouration. Body (excluding wings and legs) black, except for: apical part of clypeus, tip of mandible, posterior margin of each metasomal tergite tinged with reddish-brown; ventral surface of flagellum blackishbrown; palpi, posterodorsal corner of pronotum, tegula, membranous parts of sternites and posterior part of subgenital plate yellowish-brown; ovipositor reddish-brown to yellowish-brown. Wings hyaline, slightly tinged with yellow; veins and pterostigma brown except for yellow wing base. Legs (hind leg: Fig. 4 B) yellowish-brown, except for: all coxae and all trochanters except for apices of each trochanter black; hind femur more or less darkened apically; subbasal band and apical part of hind tibia blackish-brown to black; hind tarsus blackish-brown to black with basal yellow areas on TS1–TS3 and slightly on TS4. Basal yellow areas of TS1–TS3 shorter than each black area.
Male. Unknown.
Material examined. JAPAN: 1F, Hokkaido Pref., Sapporo, 12. viii. 1967, M. Suwa leg. (KU); 1F, Hokkaido Pref., Mt. Soranuma, 29. viii. 1965, K. Kusigemati leg. (KU); 1F, Iwate Pref., Mt. Hiraniwa, 27. viii. 1966, K. Kusigemati leg. (KU). CHINA: 1F (holotype), “Schansi Provinz, Wuta”, vii. 1924, Ishitani leg. (SEHU).
Distribution (Fig. 10). Japan (Hokkaido* and Honshu*); China.
Biology. Unknown.
Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Japan. By the result of comparison, no differences were found between Japanese and Chinese specimens. This species resembles G. lapponica Holmgren 1860, G. tegularis Thomson 1889, and G. yasumatsui (Uchida 1952), in the black coxae but it can be distinguished by the ovipositor sheath distinctly shorter than fore wing, ca. 1.0 times as long as fore wing (0.7–0.8 times in lapponica and yasumatsui), and the T2 1.0 times as long as maximum width (ca. 0.7 in yasumatsui). This species also resembles G. cognata sp. nov., but it can easily be distinguished from it (see Remarks under cognata).
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei & Maeto, Kaoru, 2014, Taxonomic status of the subgenus Conoblasta Förster 1869 of the genus Glypta Gravenhorst 1829 with revision of Japanese species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 3755 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/285449