Cyanotiphia fenchihuensis Feng & Chen & Li 2025, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Feng, Zi-Yan
name: Chen, Bin
name: Li, Ting-Jing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Cyanotiphia
Cyanotiphia fenchihuensis

description: Cyanotiphia fenchihuensis (Tsuneki, 1986), comb. nov.
(Figs 9–16)
Tiphia (Punctotiphia) fenchihuensis Tsuneki, 1986: 2, 8, 12–17, ♀ ♂.
[Holotype, ♀, China, Taiwan, Chiayi City, Chiayi County, Fenchihu, about 1400m, 26.VII.1966, K. Tsuneki; deposited in University of Fukui (Japan)].
Material examined. 1♂, China, Guangdong Province, Qingyuan City, Yangshan County, Nanling National Natural Reserve, 24°45’40”N, 112°51’50”E, 794 m, 18.VII.2008, Hao Zeng (CNU).
Diagnosis. This species differs from the type species C. ruficauda Cameron, 1907 in the following characters: body black (Fig. 9); lower frons with medial longitudinal narrow carina in male (Figs 10, 11); transverse carina of T1 with an angle backwards in the middle, but almost straight in female (Fig. 9).
The male of this species differs from C. breviclypeola sp. nov. in the following characters: clypeus more sharply triangular (Fig. 10); lower frons with medial longitudinal narrow carina in male (Figs 10, 11); propodeal areola almost 2× longer than wide (Fig. 12); S1 with longitudinal wrinkles, without deep punctures along lateral carina (Fig. 14); pygidium of T7 present, without lateral carina (Fig. 16).
Distribution. China (Taiwan, *Guangdong).
Remarks. Tsuneki (1986) described Tiphia (Punctotiphia) fenchihuensis from Taiwan, China (one female and 17 males). After examining our specimen and referring to the related literature, T. (P.) fenchihuensis matches the diagnostic features of Cyanotiphia (Cameron 1907; Tsuneki 1986; Saini et al. 2022). So, T. (P.) fenchihuensis Tsuneki, 1986 should be transferred to the Cyanotiphia.
Tsuneki’s original description of the species, based on the Taiwanese specimens, was detailed and the Guangdong specimen examined in our study is almost identical. In our paper, just some complementary and variations in male are offered as follows: W: OW: L: IOD=6.5: 3: 3.8: 3.6; OOD: POD: Od= 9: 7.5: 6.5; AOD: WAS: IAD: CL= 9.5: 15: 3.5: 22; propodeal areola of propodeum noticeably long and subtrapezoidal, APWL= 1.4: 1: 1.9, and its posterior part medially lower than the surrounding area (Fig. 12); disc of propodeum with several longitudinal or bifurcate wrinkles (Fig. 12), lateral surface of propodeum dorsally with dense long curving wrinkles extending from anterodorsal to posteroventral area, ventrally impunctate (Fig. 13); S1 with longitudinal wrinkles, without deep punctures along lateral carina (Fig. 14); S3–S6 with sparse and shallow punctures, and denser on posterior margins (Fig. 15); and T7 strongly and coarsely puncto-reticulate, interspaces between punctures distinctly with long carinae (Fig. 16).
description: Published as part of Feng, Zi-Yan, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2025, A taxonomic review of the newly recorded genus Cyanotiphia Cameron, 1907 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Tiphiinae) from China, with a key to all known species, pp. 592-598 in Zootaxa 5584 (4) on pages 595-596, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/14853712