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Ren Y-J, Wang K, Zhou C-L, Cui X-B, Wang G-X, Liu M-H, Ye S-x, Meng Z-J (2023) A new species of Trychosis Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with a key to the species known from China. ZooKeys 1167: 49-56. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1167.104105
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A new species of Ichneumonidae, Trychosis naolihense Meng & Ren, sp. nov., is described and illustrated. Specimens were collected from Naolihe National Natural Reserve, Heilongjiang Province, China. A key to the currently known species from China is provided.
Agrothereutina, Cryptini, new taxon, taxonomy, wetland
The genus Trychosis Förster, 1869, belonging to the tribe Cryptini of the subfamily Cryptinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), currently contains 44 described species (
The Western Palaearctic species of Trychosis were revised by
Since 2021, a survey to the insect resources has been conducted in the Naolihe National Natural Reserve, Heilongjiang, which aims to track and document the biodiversity of this area. During this survey, a new species of Trychosis was collected and discovered in Naolihe Reserve. The primary purpose of this study is to describe and illustrate this new species and provide a key to the currently known species from China.
Specimens were collected using sweeping nets from emerged plants at the Hongqiling farm (46°51′26"N, 133°1′50"E) in Naolihe National Natural Reserve, Heilongjiang. The predominant plant families in this area are Cyperaceae and Gramineae, with Carex pseudocuraica and Calamagrostis angustifolia as dominant species.
Morphological terminology mostly follows
Trychosis Förster, 1869. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 25(1868): 187. Type species: Cryptus ambigua Tschek.
Fore wing length 3.2–8.8 mm. Clypeus moderately to strongly convex, with anterior margin almost truncate to strongly convex forward, without tooth. Mesoscutum very short, with dense punctures. Epomia usually present and strong. Epicnemial carina reaching center of mesopleuron close to its anterior margin. Propodeum strongly oblique, anterior and posterior transverse carinae present. Propodeal spiracle almost circular. Areolet usually parallel laterally. Hind wing with vein 1-cu as long as or longer than cu-a. Tergite 1 long, 0.5–0.6× as long as mesosoma. Ovipositor thin, compressed, with nodus.
Notes. Trychosis indigna (Kokujev, 1909) is not included in the key because only one male specimen is known. It is distinguished from other species in the key by the following combination of characters: complete posterior transverse carina of propodeum; frons with median carina; infumated wings; posterior portion of tergite 1–3 entirely brown.
1 | Clypeus with dense transverse wrinkles. Areolet distinctly convergent anteriorly. Frons almost entirely smooth, shiny. Tergites 6–7 largely white dorsally. Basal 0.7 of hind femur red | T. naolihense Meng & Ren, sp. nov. |
– | Clypeus with punctures. Areolet parallel-sided laterally. Frons with punctures or wrinkles. Tergites 6–7 without white spot. Hind femur black or mainly black | 2 |
2 | Flagellomeres 6–10 white. All tergites and hind femur black | T. yezoensis (Uchida, 1930) |
– | Flagellomeres entirely black. Tergites 2–4 red-brown. Hind femur blackish brown | T. legator (Thunberg, 1822) |
Holotype ♀, China, Heilongjiang Province, National Natural Reserve, Naolihe wetland, Hongqiling farm; 46°51′26"N, 133°1′50"E, 78.9 m elev.; 25 July 2021; leg. Ying-Jie Ren (CBDPC).
Clypeus (Fig.
Female (Fig.
Head. Face (Fig.
Mesosoma. Lower part of propleuron (Fig.
Trychosis naolihense Meng & Ren. Holotype, female, mesosoma, lateral view 8 holotype, female, fore wing 9 holotype, female, propodeum 10 holotype, female, abdominal tergite 1, dorsal view 11 holotype, female, abdominal tergites to 8, dorsal view 12 holotype, female, posterior portion of metasoma, lateral view.
Metasoma. Tergite 1 (Fig.
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The specific name is derived from the type locality.
Heilongjiang, China.
The new species is similar to Trychosis nigra (Telenga, 1930) in having gena that almost straightly converge backwards (Figs
This research was supported by the Survey of Insect Resources in Heilongjiang Naolihe National Nature Reserve (2020-214). We thank Prof. Mao-Ling Sheng for identifying the specimens and the staff of the Naolihe Nature Reserve for their assistance in the field survey.
No conflict of interest was declared.
No ethical statement was reported.
No funding was reported.
All authors contributed equally to this work.
Ying-Jie Ren https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8472-8992
All of the data that support the findings of this study are available in the main text or Supplementary Information.