Eupelmus pini Taylor, 1927

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 : 364

4.4 Eupelmus pini Taylor, 1927

Fig. 9E,F

Eupelmus pini Taylor, 1927: 205‒207 .

Eupelmus Aloysii Russo, 1938: 229‒230 .

Eupelmus sculpturatus Nikol’skaya, 1952: 501‒502 (Russian), 1963: 515 (English).

Eupelmus suecicus Hedqvist, 1963: 137‒138 .

Eupelmus carinifrons Yang, 1996: 215‒216 , 326.

Eupelmus (Eupelmus) pini ; Gibson, 2011: 72 ; Gibson & Fusu, 2016: 220–225.

Material examined. CHINA: 1♀, Goudunping, Fujian Tianbaoyan National Natural Reserve, Sanming City , Fujian Province, 14 October 2020, Malaise trap, DNA 844 ( FAFU) .

Distribution. China (Beijing, * Fujian, Henan, Yunnan), Andorra, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United States.

Remarks. Females of this species are easily distinguished those of most other Eupelmus species by the fore wing lacking a linea calva, and the acropleuron being strongly mesh-like reticulate, especially posteriorly. Additionally, the scrobal depression is smooth and shiny, whereas in most other Chinese species it is coarsely sculptured. Yang (1996) reported E. urozonus Dalman from China, whose females are also characterized by a smooth and shiny scrobal depression, but Gibson & Fusu (2016) subsequently determined this to be a misidentification of E. kamijoi after re-examination of a specimen.

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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.