Eupelmus luteipes Fusu & Gibson, 2016

Li, Zixuan, Xu, Shirui, Wang, Zongying, Chen, Pengfei, Wu, Jianqin & Peng, Lingfei, 2025, Species of Eupelmidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Fujian Tianbaoyan National Nature Reserve, China, Zootaxa 5665 (3), pp. 349-373 : 361

4.2 Eupelmus luteipes Fusu & Gibson, 2016

Fig. 9A,B

Eupelmus (Eupelmus) luteipes Fusu & Gibson, 2016: 161–166 .

Material examined. CHINA: 1♀, Goudunping, Fujian Tianbaoyan National Natural Reserve, Sanming City , Fujian Province, 27 August 2020, Malaise trap, DNA 843 ( FAFU) .

Distribution. China (Beijing, * Fujian, Taiwan), Japan, South Korea.

Remarks. Gibson & Fusu (2016) established the fulvipes species group, which contained ten species that are often difficult to identify to species level. Within this group, five species that are already recorded from China include E. formosae Ashmead , E. kamijoi Gibson & Fusu , E. kiefferi De Stefani , E. luteipes and E. tachardiae . Among these, females of E. luteipes can be easily recognized by their obviously roughened frons, being distinctly reticulate to reticulate-imbricate (cf. Gibson & Fusu 2016, fig. 58e). Our specimen exhibits a dark bluish to purple mesonotum, similar to females from South Korea (cf. Gibson & Fusu 2016, fig. 58f). Like most females from China, it has a mostly orangey-brown scape and pale legs (excluding coxae and tarsal pegs).

Figures

FIGURE 9. Eupelmus luteipes (DNA 843): A, body, lateral; B, body, dorsal. Eupelmus peculiaris (DNA 818): C, body, dorsal; D, body, lateral. Eupelmus pini (DNA 844): E, body, dorsal; F, body, lateral.