Aclitus sappaphis Takada & Shiga, 1974
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16782655 |
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Aclitus sappaphis Takada & Shiga, 1974 |
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Aclitus sappaphis Takada & Shiga, 1974 View in CoL
Aclitus sappaphis Takada & Shiga, 1974 View in CoL
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 6F6E1534-552C-50AD-B770-135E130CBBC3; Taxon: scientificName: Aclitus sappaphis Takada & Shiga, 1974 ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Braconidae ; genus: Aclitus ; specificEpithet: sappaphis ; scientificNameAuthorship: Takada & Shiga, 1974; taxonRemarks: species; Location: higherGeography: East Asia; country: South Korea; countryCode: KR; stateProvince: Gangwon-do; municipality: Yanggu-gun; locality: DMZ Botanical Garden, Mandae-ri, Haean-myeon ; Event: startDayOfYear: 04 Jul 2017; endDayOfYear: 18 Jul 2017; year: 2017; Record Level: type: Dried specimen; institutionCode: KNA, Korean National Arboterum
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 076AF26F-F2E1-5928-A091-E400CC6C856C; Taxon: scientificName: Aclitus sappaphis Takada & Shiga, 1974 ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Braconidae ; genus: Aclitus ; specificEpithet: sappaphis ; scientificNameAuthorship: Takada & Shiga, 1974; taxonRemarks: species; Location: higherGeography: East Asia; country: Japan; countryCode: JP; stateProvince: Hokkaido; municipality: Sapporo; Identification: identificationRemarks: Amonoctonus watanabei (Takada, 1965) reared from Hamamelistes betulinus (de Horváth, 1896) (original label: Amonoctonus watanabei (Takada, 1965) reared from Mansakia shirakabae (Monen, 1927 )) ; Event: eventDate: 08 Jun 1967; year: 1967; Record Level: type: Dried specimen; institutionCode: IECA, České Budějovice
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E995C060-5A67-5187-92B3-6DB18646BBB8; Taxon: scientificName: Aclitus sappaphis Takada & Shiga, 1974 ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Braconidae ; genus: Aclitus ; specificEpithet: sappaphis ; scientificNameAuthorship: Takada & Shiga, 1974; taxonRemarks: species; Location: higherGeography: East Asia; country: Japan; countryCode: JP; stateProvince: Hokkaido; municipality: Sapporo; Identification: identificationRemarks: Amonoctonus watanabei (Takada, 1965) reared from Hamamelistes betulinus (de Horváth, 1896) (original label: Amonoctonus watanabei (Takada, 1965) reared from Mansakia shirakabae (Monen, 1927 )) ; Event: eventDate: 08 Jun 1967; year: 1967; Record Level: type: Slide specimen; institutionCode: IECA, České Budějovice
Diagnosis
Female from South Korea. Length of body in lateral view 3.5 mm (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 A). Length of antennae 1.6 mm (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 B) and fore wing 1.8 mm (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 I).
Head. Head transverse (width / median length in dorsal view = 1.4), wider than mesosoma at tegulae (width head / mesoscutum in dorsal view = 1.2) with sparse long erect hairs (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 A). Eye small, oval, sparsely setose (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 G, N). Face sparsely setose, width / height ratio 2.8 (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 D). Tentorial index 0.7 (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 D). Clypeus oval with 10 long setae. F 1 longer than F 2 (length F 1 / F 2 = 1.3) (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 C). F 1 and F 2 2.8 x and 2.2 × their basal width, respectively. F 1 without longitudinal placodes, F 2 with three, and F 3 – F 12 with at least four longitudinal placodes (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 B, C).
Mesosoma. Mesoscutum dorsal surface smooth, with 28–30 long setae along the dorsolateral part of mesoscutum each side (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 E). Scutellum without scutellar sulcus carina; nearly triangular, bearing 30 long setae (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 E). Propodeum with 10 long setae on each side, length / width of areola = 0.7 (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 F). Pterostigma (= stigma) narrow and elongated; length equal to vein R 1 (= metacarpus). Vein r and 3 RSa extended into center of fore wing. Veins 3 RSb and 3 M extended, but not reaching wing margin, vein r-m weakly sclerotised, colorless. Vein m-cu extended to center of fore wing, colorless at base. Vein 2 CU developed, but colorless at base (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 I). Legs with sparse erect hairs. Fore femur maximum length / width = 3.7; fore tibia maximum length / width = 6.6, with one tibial spur; fore femur length subequal to fore tibia (length fore femur / fore tibia = 1.1); fore tarsus with five tarsomeres (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 L); fore basitarsus (= 1 st tarsomere) with a single row of densely comb-shaped hairs (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 L); fore basitarsus short (fore tarsus / fore basitarsus = 3.3) (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 J), claws acute (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 M). Tibia of middle and hind legs with two tibial spurs. Hind femur maximum length / width = 3.8; hind tibia maximum length / width = 7.9, hind femur shorter than hind tibia (hind femur / hind tibia length = 0.6); hind basitarsus without densely comb-shaped hairs; hind basitarsus long (hind tarsus / hind basitarsus = 2.6) (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 K).
Metasoma. Petiole short and transverse, widening gradually towards posterior (petiole length / width at level of spiracles = 0.9, petiole length / width at terminal = 1.3). (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 F, H). Ovipositor sheath elongately triangular with long hairs; dorsal with three and ventral with four long setae respectively (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 O).
Color. Antenna yellowish-brown and partly brown; scape, pedicel, F 1 and F 10–12 yellowish-brown, F 2–9 yellowish-brown to brown, and again yellowish-brown gradually. Head, face and clypeus dark brown, mouth-parts light brown. Vein 1 M, r, 3 RSa, 3 RSb, r-m, and m-cu vein of fore wing with brown spot. Mesosoma and metasoma dark brown; petiole and sternite 2 light brown. Legs light brown with dark apices.
Biology
A solitary endoparasitoid of Sappaphis piri [ Artemisia princeps ], Hamamelistes betulinus (de Horváth, 1896) (in this study).
Notes
A single row of densely comb-shaped hairs on the fore basitarsus (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 L) likely functions in removing dirt from the body, especially the head, while living underground (this character is also present in a dried specimen from Japan deposited in the Starý collection). The collector of the Japanese samples (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 A – H) most likely initially identified them as Calaphidius elegans Mackauer, 1961 (= Amonoctonus watanabei (Takada, 1965 )) , a species described two years earlier, based on the host information and collection locality. However, significant morphological differences from C. elegans exist, including the shape of fore wing venation, the presence of transverse areolation on the propodeum, petiole length / width ratio, and the shape of the ovipositor sheath. Although the fore wing venation of the examined specimen appears faint, this is a common issue resulting from prolonged storage in alcohol. Although the label has not been corrected, the specimen was placed within a box labeled as Aclitus sappaphis . The original host aphis label is Hamamelistes betulinus (de Horváth, 1896) (= Mansakia shirakabae (Monen, 1927 )) . Considering that the vertex outline forms an angle of nearly 90 ° with the frons in lateral view, the number of antennal segments, the length ratio of F 1 / F 2, and the length / width ratio of the pterostigma, the specimen belongs to A. sappaphis . A description of the type specimen can be found in Takada and Shiga (1974).
Sequences from the South Korea specimen are provided here (Suppl. material 1).
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Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Entomology |
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