Aerophilus romani ( Shestakov 1940 )

Wu, Qiong, Tang, Pu, Fang, Yu, van Achterberg, Cornelis & Chen, Xue-xin, 2025, The genus Aerophilus Szépligeti, 1902 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) in China, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 157012-e 157012 : e157012-

Aerophilus romani ( Shestakov 1940)

Microdus romani Shestakov 1940: 14.

Agathis romani : Shenefelt 1970: 351.

Bassus romani : Sharkey 1998: 528; Chen and Yang 2006: 87.

Lytopylus romani : van Achterberg and Long 2010: 93 ; Sharkey and Clutts 2011: 127 .

Bassus ater Chou and Sharkey 1989: 155. Synonymised by Sharkey (1998).

Agathis burmensis Bhat and Gupta 1977: 142. Synonymised by Sharkey et al. (2011), Sharkey and Clutts (2011) and Sharkey and Clutts (2011).

Agathis ebula Nixon 1950: 469 .

Bassus ebulus : Chou and Sharkey 1989: 158. Synonymised by Sharkey (1998).

Lytopylus ebulus : Sharkey and Clutts 2011: 126 (reinstated).

Aerophilus ebulus : Sharkey et al. 2016: 54. syn. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: A9A598D5-638B-543C-BD2D-3DA45D112B1A; Taxon: scientificName: Agathis ebula Nixon, 1950 ; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 20004545; 20004518; 20004569; 20004533 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Lin Naiquan; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: CB150999-0177-5586-A9B5-1FD2B96D4621; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Liaoning; municipality: Shenyang; locality: Dongling ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 9.VII.1992; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 947620; 947672 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Lou Juxian; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 60D59A79-EEFE-5E49-9476-4674FA6D9A6D; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Liaoning; municipality: Shenyang; locality: Dongling ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 21.VI.1994; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 821523; 822287 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: He Junhua; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: B77CEF16-337B-5B0F-B480-A2C93C49BD65; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guangxi; county: Longzhou; locality: Nonggang ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 19.V.1982; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 882682 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Guo Shijian; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: ECEC6C27-612B-5D48-BEF0-6A353BC18C7B; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Zhejiang; locality: Xitianmushan ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 16-18.V.1988; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: 882682 (ZJUH) ; recordedBy: Chen Xuexin; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 48AFF3B7-2573-5859-97C6-0E68DCA9FB76; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Zhejiang; locality: Xitianmushan ; Event: verbatimEventDate: 21.VII.1987; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

China (Liaoning, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Taiwan) (Figs 19 , 20 ); Russia; Japan; Korea; India; Vietnam; Thailand.

Notes

Aerophilus ebulus ( Nixon, 1950) was reinstated from synonym of Aerophilus romani ( Shestakov, 1940) by Sharkey and Clutts (2011), based on the reason that A. ebulus has milky-white middle and hind basitarsomeres. However, we checked the holotype of A. ebulus ( Nixon, 1950) and found that the type actually has the middle and hind tarsi completely black, which is identical to A. romani (Shestakov) .

Figures

Figure 19. Aerophilus romani (Shestakov, 1940) ， China. A habitus, lateral aspect; B fore wing; C mesosoma, lateral aspect; D mesosoma, dorsal aspect; E head, dorsal aspect; F head, front aspect; G head, lateral aspect; H hind femur; I metasoma, dorsal aspect. Scale-bars A-G, I 1 mm, H 0.5 mm.

Figure 20. Aerophilus romani (Shestakov, 1940), China, variation, habitus, lateral aspect. Scale-bar 1 mm.