Gasteruption abeillei Kieffer, 1912

Tan, Jiang-Li, Achterberg, Cornelis van, Wu, Jia-Xuan, Wang, Hang & Zhang, Qi-Jing, 2021, An illustrated key to the species of Gasteruption Latreille (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae) from Palaearctic China, with description of four new species, ZooKeys 1038, pp. 1-103 : 1

Gasteruption abeillei Kieffer, 1912 Figs 1-2 , 3 , 4-12

Gasteruption abeillei Kieffer, 1912: 228, 231, 251; Hedicke 1939: 5; Ferrière 1946: 235, 240; Leclercq 1948: 75; Wall 1994: 148; van Achterberg et al. 2019: 3 (as valid species). Synonymised with G. assectator (Linnaeus) by Madl 1989a.

Trichofoenus breviterebrae Watanabe, 1934: 285; Hedicke 1939: 45. Synonymised with G. assectator (Linnaeus) by Pagliano and Scaramozzino (2000) and with G. boreale (Thomson) by Tan et al. (2016) and Johansson and van Achterberg (2016). Synonymised with G. abeillei by van Achterberg et al. 2019.

Additional material.

3 ♀ + 3 ♂ (NWUX, RMNH), "NW China: Shaanxi, Huaishuzhuang Rev. St., Ziwuling NNR, Fuxian , Yanan , sweep net, 35.86°N, 108.74°E, 4.viii.2019, 1271 m alt. Jiangli Tan, NWUX" .

Distribution.

China (Shaanxi), Russia (Far East), Europe. New for Shaanxi.

Figures

Figure 3. Gasteruption abeillei Kieffer, male, Shaanxi, habitus lateral.

Figures 1, 2. Gasteruption abeillei Kieffer, female, Shaanxi 1 habitus lateral 2 detailed apical half of ovipositor sheath lateral.

Figures 4 - 12. Gasteruption abeillei Kieffer, female, Shaanxi 4 head lateral 5 mesosoma lateral 6 mesosoma dorsal 7 wings 8 ovipositor and its sheath lateral 9 head anterior 10 head dorsal 11 hind leg 12 antenna.