Glypta nipponica Watanabe & Maeto, 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
name: Maeto, Kaoru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Glypta
Glypta nipponica

description: Glypta nipponica sp. nov.
(Figs. 1 L, 2 L, 3 K, 5 D, 6 L, 7 L)
Description: Female (n=1: holotype). Body length 8.0 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 L). Face strongly convex medially (Fig. 2 L), 0.5 times as long as wide. Frons with a large median horn between each antennal socket, its apex relateively rounded (Figs. 1 L, 3 K). OOL 1.6 times as long as OD; POL 1.6 times as long as OD. Mandible with narrow ventral flange by basal 0.7, its base flat. MSL 0.8 times as long as BWM. Antenna with 35 flagellomeres. F1 1.5 times as long as F2.
Mesosoma. Punctate, punctures on lateral lobes of mesoscutum (excluding near notaulus) separated by 0.3–2.5 (usually ca. 2.0) times their diameter. Epomia weak and short. Lateral area of pronotum entirely punctate. Both sides of mesoscutum near tegula weakly produced posteriorly. Propodeum entirely densely punctate. Posterior transverse carina and pleural carina of propodeum complete. Other carinae of propodeum absent. Fore wing length 6.5 mm. Fore coxa with weak ridge antero-dorsally. Hind femur 5.5 times as long as maximum depth in lateral view. Hind TS1 2.1 times as long as TS2.
Metasoma. T1–T4 punctate (Figs. 6 L, 7 L). T1 1.2 times as long as maximum width, its median dorsal carina present on ca. basal 0.5 of tergite (Fig. 6 L). T2 0.8 times as long as maximum width. T2–T4 each with moderate a pair of oblique groove (Fig. 7 L). Ovipositor sheath ca. 1.0 times as long as fore wing, 2.5 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; flagellum blackish-brown, its ventral surface more or less paler than dorsal surface; palpi, posterodorsal corner of pronotum, tegula, membranous parts of sternites and posterior part of subgenital plate yellow to whitish-yellow; ovipositor reddish-brown to yellowishbrown. Wings hyaline, slightly tinged with yellow; veins and pterostigma brown except for yellow wing base. Legs (hind leg: Fig. 5 D) reddish-brown, except for: fore coxa, fore and mid trochanters, all trochantelluses, base of all tibiae, all tibial spurs excluding apex of mid and hind tibial spurs, fore and mid tarsi excluding mid TS5 and basal area of hind TS1–TS3 pale yellow; hind femur more or less darkened basally and apically; subbasal band and apical part of hind tibia, and apex of mid and hind tibial spurs blackish-brown to black; hind tibia except for base and black area more or less dark brown; hind tarsus blackish-brown to black with basal yellow areas on TS1–TS3 and slightly on TS4. Basal yellow areas of TS1 0.5 length of TS1 and of TS2–TS3 shorter than each black area.
Male. Unknown.
Material examined. JAPAN: [Holotype] F, Hokkaido Pref., Kumaishi, Kenichi-gawa, Iwafuchi-zawa, 1–11. ix. 1995, Y. Ito and T. Ito leg. (MsT) (NIAES).
Distribution (Fig. 13). Japan (Hokkaido).
Biology. Unknown.
Etymology. The specific name is from the “ Nippon (= Japan)”.
Remarks. This species has been confused with G. cymolomiae and its allied species but they can be distinguished from each other by the above key and Table 1. This species also closely resembles G. caudata but it can easily be distinguished by the hind tibia largely dark brown (largely reddish-brown in caudata), and the basal yellow areas of TS1 0.5 length of TS1 (0.2 in caudata).
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 pages 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/285449