Apophua maetai Momoi 1978
Creators: name: Watanabe, Kyohei
name: Maeto, Kaoru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Apophua
Apophua maetai

description: Apophua maetai Momoi, 1978
(Figs. 1 G, 2 F, 4 H, 5 G, 6 G, 7 G, 8 I, J, 9 M–O)
Apophua maetai Momoi, 1978: 11.
Apophua genalis kasparyani Kuslitzky, 2007: 434. syn. nov.
Description. Female (n=7). Body: robust, its length 9.0– 9.5 mm.
Head 0.6 times as long as wide. Clypeus 0.8 times as long as wide, its upper 0.5 punctate. Face 0.6 times as long as wide. MSL 1.0–1.1 times as long as BWM. OOD 1.6–2.0 times as long as OD. IOD 1.4–2.0 times as long as OD. Antenna with 43–45 flagellomeres. F1 2.0 times as long as F2.
Mesosoma. Lateral area of pronotum largely smooth ventral 0.5. Epicnemial carina present laterally. Mesopleural fovea narrowly smooth. All carinae of propodeum present, or sometimes partly obscured or absent.
Fore wing length 6.0–7.0 mm, with vein 2 m-cu with two bullae. Hind wing with Cu 1 present, nebulous. Fore coxa without ridge (Fig. 4 H). Hind femur 5.5–6.0 times as long as maximum depth in lateral view. Hind TS1 2.5 times as long as TS2.
Metasoma punctate. Punctures on T2 slightly longitudinally striated by coalescent punctures. T1 1.1–1.2 times as long as maximum wide, its median dorsal carina present less than basal 0.5, short median longitudinal keel sometimes absent (Fig. 6 G). T2 0.9 times as long as maximum width (Figs. 6 G, 7 G). T2–T4 without short median longitudinal keel (Figs. 6 G, 7 G). Ovipositor sheath 2.2–2.3 times as long as hind tibia.
Coloration (Figs. 1 G, 2 F, 5 G, 7 G). Head black except for: clypeus, mandible excluding tip yellow; palpi yellowish-brown; antenna brown excluding dorsal part of scape blackish-brown. Mesosoma black except for: upper margin of pronotum excluding median part, median part of collar, tegula, subtegular ridge, scutellum, postscutellum, hind margins of each axilla yellow. Wings hyaline with veins and stigma brown except for yellow wing base. Legs: yellowish-brown to reddish-brown except for: apex of hind tibia brown; hind tarsus more or less partly darkened. Metasoma black except for: T1–T3 reddish-yellow; membranous area of sternites, apex of subgenital plate whitish-yellow. Ovipositor reddish-brown. Red area on T1–T3 sometimes partly tinged with brown or in some Russian specimens this area present as posterior band.
Male (n=6). Similar to female. BL 8.0–9.0 mm; OOD 1.2–1.6 times as long as OD; IOD 1.4–1.6 times as long as OD; antenna with 40–43 flagellomeres. Hind TS1 2.4–2.5 times long as TS2; hind femur 5.4–5.6 times as long as maximum depth. Subgenital plate with a long apodema sternalis, anterior margin slightly concave (Fig. 9 M). Inner margin of paramere strongly concave near basal inner angle (Fig. 8 I). Penis valve of aedeagus ca. 2.0 times as long as basal apodeme (Fig. 9 N). Metasomal tergite darker than female, base of T1–T3 more or less tinged with black.
Specimens examined. JAPAN [Hokkaido] 1F, Shimamatsu, 19. viii. 1967, K. Kusigemati leg. (KU); 4M, Sarobetsu, Toyotomi, 2. viii. 1961, G. Kudo leg. (KU); 1M, Sarobetsu, Toyotomi, 2. viii. 1961, C. Watanabe leg. (KU). [Honshu] 3F, Shizuoka Pref., East Izu, Mt. Iwamura, 12. viii. 1967, K. Ogura leg. (NIAES); 1F (holotype of A. maetai), Nagano Pref., Ina, Minamiminowa, 16. vi. 1964, Y. Maeta leg. (MNHAH). RUSSIA: 1F (paratype of A. genalis kasparyani), Pigeon Cliff (Hassan), 8. ix. 1980, Gorokhov leg. (ZIS); 1F (paratype of A. genalis kasparyani), Khabarovsk Territory, Dormidontovka, 92 km south of Khabarovsk, meadow, 28. vii. 1978, Kasparyan leg. (ZIS). MONGOLIA: 1M (paratype of A. genalis kasparyani), Eastern. Aimag, p. Halhin-Gol, 33 km SW Somony Khalkhas Goal, 31.VIII, 1976 Kozlov leg. (ZIS).
Distribution (Fig. 12). Japan (Hokkaido* and Honshu), Mongolia and Russian Far East.
Biology. Unknown.
Remarks. Although this species was not treated in the study of Apophua in Russian Far East by Kuslitzky (2007), he described a new subspecies A. genalis kasparyani from Russian Far East. However A. maetai and A. genalis kasparyani are identical in the length of the malar space, (MSL/BWM = 1.0–1.1), while this length in A. genalis (Moller, 1833) from Eurasia is longer than A. maetai and A. genalis kasparyani (MSL/BWM = ca. 1.5). These differences in the length of malar space suggests that they are different species. We examined the types of A. genalis kasparyani and are convinced that this subspecies should be synonymized under A. maetai.
description: Published as part of Watanabe, Kyohei & Maeto, Kaoru, 2014, Revision of the genus Apophua Morley, 1913, from Japan (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), pp. 501-527 in Zootaxa 3784 (5) on pages 519-520, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/227830