Pachyprotasis micromaculata Wei 1998
Creators: name: Zhong, Yihai
name: Li, Zejian
name: Wei, Meicai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Pachyprotasis
Pachyprotasis micromaculata

description: Pachyprotasis micromaculata Wei, 1998
(Figs. 24, 25, 49, 65, 83, 98, 112, 127)
Pachyprotarsis [sic!] micromaculata Wei in Wei & Nie, 1998: 167, ♀, type locality: Songxian, Henan, China. Pachyprotasis micromaculata: Wei et al. 2006: 535; Taeger et al. 2010: 571.
Distribution. China (Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Gansu and Shaanxi) (Fig. 127).
Material examined. Holotype, Henan: ♀, Songxian (34°15′N, 112°06′E), 19.07.1996, Meicai Wei leg.; nontype material: 2 ♀, Baotianman, Neixiang (33°05′N, 111°83′E), 12.07.1998, Meicai Wei, Wei Xiao leg.; 1 ♀, Dakuaidi, Lushi (34°06′N, 111°03′E, alt. 1700 m), 21.07.2001, Yihai Zhong leg.; 1 ♀, Mt. Baiyun, Songxian (34°15′N, 112°06′E, alt. 1650 m), 19.07.2002, Jigang Jiang leg.; 1 ♀, Mt. Baiyun, Songxian (34°15′N, 112°06′E, alt. 1500 m), 24.07.2003, Yingke He leg.; 1 ♀, Longyuwan, Luanchuan (33°81′N, 111°06′E, alt. 1600–1800 m), 21.07.2004, Weixing Liu leg.; 7 ♀, Mt. Baiyun, Songxian (34°15′N, 112°06′E, alt. 1500–1600 m), 17– 18.07.2004, Shaobin Zhang, Weixing Liu leg.; 3 ♀, Mt. Tianchi, Songxian (34°15′N, 112°06′E, alt. 1300–1400 m), 17– 18.07.2004, Weixing Liu leg.; 3 ♀, Baotianman, Neixiang (33°05′N, 111°83′E, alt. 1300–1400 m), 22– 24.07.2004, Shaobin Zhang leg.; Hunan: 1 ♀, Mt. Badagong, Sangzhi (29°39′N, 109°49′E, alt. 1250 m), 13.07.2001, Jun Wei, Ningting Huang leg.; 3 ♀, Jiangping Mt. Huping, Shimen (29°55′N, 110°46′E, alt. 1200–1600 m), 0 9.06.2004, Jiang Yang leg.; Hubei: 1 ♀, Xiangxiyan, Shennongjia (31°43′N, 110°43′E, alt. 1386 m), 11.07.2008, Fu Zhao leg.; 1 ♀, Caiqi, Shennongjia (31°43′N, 110°43′E, alt. 1981 m), 21.07.2008, Zhao Jiao leg.; Gansu: 1 ♀, Dongcha Forestry Farm, Maiji (34°23′N, 106°06′E), 13.06.2007, Fan Hui leg.; Shaanxi: 1 ♀, Mt. Huashan (34°31′N, 110°05′E, alt. 1300–1600 m), 12.07.2005, Xun Zhu leg.; 3 ♀, Haoping, Yingtou, Meixian (34°09′N, 107°45′E, alt. 1162 m), 1.07.2008, Xun Zhu leg.
Discussion. This species is similar to P. melanosoma (see discussion of P. melanosoma). It is also similar to P. cinctulata and may be distinguished as follows (P. cinctulata in parentheses): punctures on mesepisternum not rough, their diameter and depth regular, and distances between them regular (punctures on mesepisternum rough, their diameter and depth irregular, distances between them also irregular); mesoscutellum, mesoscutellar appendage and metascutellum with white (dorsum of thorax completely black); outer part of hind coxa with a large white spot, hind trochanter white, hind femur black (hind coxa completely black, hind trochanter black, basal 1/3 of hind femur white); labrum and clypeus white, medially with black spots (labrum dark brown, anterior and posterior margin white, clypeus completely black). Except for the serrulae and punctures on mesepisternum, reliable morphological differences between these three species were not found.
description: Published as part of Zhong, Yihai, Li, Zejian & Wei, Meicai, 2015, Six new Chinese species of the Pachyprotasis melanosoma group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) with a key to the species, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 3914 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287701