Apanteles dryas Nixon 1965
Creators: name: Liu, Zhen
name: He, Jun-Hua
name: Chen, Xue-Xin
name: Gupta, Ankita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Apanteles
Apanteles dryas

description: Apanteles dryas Nixon, 1965   
(Figures 35, 100)  
 Apanteles dryas Nixon, 1965: 85. Holotype ♀ — Beijing, China [USNM]. Shenefelt, 1972: 495; Chen & Song, 2004: 50.   
 Diagnosis. Body length 2.7 mm, fore wing length 2.9 mm. Body black, basal half of hind femur reddish yellow, apical half blackish. Ocelli small, posterior tangent to anterior ocellus hardly touching posterior ocelli, distance between fore and hind ocellus slightly longer than diameter of hind ocellus. Antenna slightly shorter than body length, penultimate flagellomere about as long as wide. Interspaces between punctures on disc of mesonotum shorter than its diameter. Areola on propodeum strongly defined, closed with strong costulae. Pterostigma 2.6× as long as its widest part, vein 1-R1 1.2× longer than pterostigma, vein r slightly longer than vein 2-SR, distinctly angled at junction, vannal lobe beyond its widest part with a series of hairs. T1 nearly parallel-sided, 1.7× longer than hind width, turned-over part dull, strongly rugose-punctate, longitudinal channel distinct; T2 slightly shiny, rough with wrinkles, 3.3× wider than long in the middle; T3 2.3× longer than T2. Ovipositor sheath 0.9 of longer than hind tibia.   
 Material examined. 1♀, Chong’an, Fujian, 1988.IX.8, Lin Changfu, Nos. 20007498; 3♀♀, Xianyou, Fujian, 1987.IX.28, Wu Zujian, Nos. 9610382, 9611926, 9611932; 2♀♀, Mt. Wuyi, Fujian, 1985.VII.29, Lin Naiquan, Nos. 968362, 968364; 2♀♀, Daheba, Mayanghe, Guizhou, 2007.X.1–3, Liu Jingxian, Nos. 200709535, 200709551; 2♀♀, Wanjia, Mayanghe, Guizhou, 2007.IX.27–30, ditto, Nos. 200708610, 200708751; 3♀♀, Mt. Fanjing, Gui- zhou, 2001.VII.29, Piao Meihua, Nos. 200701895, 200701944, 200701912; 2♀♀, Huaxi, Guiyang, Guizhou, 1992. IX.18, Yang Xiaolong, Nos. 20004738, 20004762; 1♀, Guiyang, Guizhou, 1982.VII, Song Xuepei, No. 835036; 1♀, Majiang, Guizhou, 1979, Zhou Shengzhen, No. 860493; 2♀♀, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 1989.IX.26, Huang Bangkan, Nos. 20004624, 20004581; 1♀, Tonghua, Jilin, 1994.VIII.1, Lou Juxian, No. 976604; 1♀, Laotuding, Shenyang, Liaoning, yellow trap, 2011.VII.18,?, No. 201103781; 1♂, Forest Park, Shenyang, Liaoning, 2011.VII.15, Zhang Rui, No. 201103588; 1♂, ditto, 2011.VII.17, Yan Chengjin, No. 201103565; 1♀, Liaowangta, Jinshan, Tongbi- guan, Yingjiang, Yunnan, 2009.V.19, Wang Manman, No. 200904093; 2♀♀, Wulinguangchang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2003.VII.5, Wan Zhiwei, Nos. 20056347, 20056336; 1♀, Zhaohui Park, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2003.VIII.5, Yu Xiaoxia, No. 20056940; 1♀, Xixi Park, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2003.VIII.5, ditto, No. 20056722; 1♀, ditto, 2003. VII.15, ditto, No. 20056623; 1♀, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 1989.VII.14, He Junhua, No. 895698; 1♀, Botanic Park, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2003.VII.5, Pan Jiadong, No. 20056088; 2♂♂, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1982.X.8–10, Ma Yun, No. 826177; 1♀, Laodian to Xianrending, Mt. Tianmu (1250–1547m), Zhejiang, 1988.V.17–18, Chen Xuexin, No. 882422; 1♀, Chanyuansi, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1988.V.16, Fan Jinjiang, No. 884364; 1♀, Chanyuansi to Xian- rending, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1988.V.16–18, Guo?, No. 882948; 1♀, Jinshanmen, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1998. IX.26, Zhao Mingshui, No. 20002700; 1♀, Sanmuping, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, light trap, 1998.VII.29, ditto, No. 999192; 1♀, Shanzhuang, Mt. Tianmu, Zhejiang, 1998.VIII.17, ditto, No. 999955; 1♀, Laodian, Mt. Tianmu, Zhe- jiang, 1998.VI.13, Chen Xuexin, No. 980700; 1♀, Mt. Gutian, Conghua, Zhejiang, 2003.VIII.19, Liu Jingxian, No. 20055848; 3♀♀ 1♂, Yiwu, Zhejiang, 1986.VIII.1–3, Lou Xiaoming, Nos. 863653, 863584, 863615(♂), 863591; 2♀♀, Dongyang, Zhejiang, 1986.VIII.10, Xu Weiliang, Nos. 862441, 862490; 7♀♀ 1♂, Jinhua, Zhejiang, 1983. VIII.4, Shi Zuhua, Nos. 831952(5), 831953(3); 1♀, ditto (coll. in rice field), 1980.IX–X, Ma Yun, No. 803608.   
 Distribution. China (Beijing, Fujian, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Yunnan, Zhejiang).
description: Published as part of Liu, Zhen, He, Jun-Hua, Chen, Xue-Xin & Gupta, Ankita, 2020, The ater-group of the genus Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from China with the descriptions of forty-eight new species, pp. 1-205 in Zootaxa 4807 (1) on pages 78-80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4807.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927639