Pachyprotasis nigronotata Kriechbaumer, 1874

(Figs 11, 12, 13, 14, 45, 46, 62, 63, 78, 90, 103, 108)

Pachyprotasis nigronotata Kriechbaumer, 1874: 51 –52; [male, female], type locality: “Bayerbrunn am Anfange des Waldweges nach Ebenhausen“ (= Baierbrunn, Bavaria, Germany).

Pachyprotasis nigronotata: Benson 1952: 128; Scobiola-Palade 1978: 198 –199; Enslin 1912 –1918: 131; Muche 1968: 9. = Pachyprotasis formosa Schmiedeknecht, 1881: 214 –216, type locality: Blankenburg, Thuringia, Germany. = Pachyprotasis viridis Brischke, 1883: 297–298, type locality: Sagorcz (=Rumin, Poland).

Material examined. Germany. 1 Ƥ, 13, Southern Bavaria; Jermiller leg. (Coll. DEI); China. Sichuan Province: 1 Ƥ, Yadinlongba, Daocheng, (100°15ʹE, 28°24ʹN, alt. 3760 m), 22.07.2005, Hu Zhou leg.; 1 Ƥ, Mt. Paoma, Kangding (101°58ʹE, 30°01ʹN, alt. 2505 m), 19.07.2005, Hu Zhou leg.; Yunnan Province: 1 3, Deqin, (99°32ʹE, 27°49ʹN, alt. 3200 m), 15.07.2004, Wei Xiao leg.

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Heilongjiang) (Fig. 108); Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Russia (Siberia, Moscow area, Primorskij Kray), Slovakia, Switzerland (Taeger & Blank 2010).

Female (Figs 11, 12): Body length 8–9 mm. Head and thorax muddy yellow, abdomen yellow brown, black are: a spot on ocellar area, a faint spot on median of upper part of the occiput, dorsal part of antenna, three large spots each on mesonotal middle and lateral lobe, lower part of meseparapsis, a large spot on metaparapsis, apical margin of ovipositor sheath. Legs muddy yellow, black are: dorsal part of four front legs from base of tibiae to claws, an inner band on apex of metafemur, a stripe on anterodorsal part of metatibia, apex of metatibia, metatarsus except each extremely base. Wings hyaline, fore wing vein C, R1, 2r and stigma pale green, other veins black. Punctures on dorsal part of head rather large, shallow and scattered, microsculpture dense, luster distinct; punctures on mesepisternum extremely minute and shallow, indistinct, interspaces shiny (Fig. 38); mesoscutellum and posttergum with dense microsculpture, punctures indistinct, shiny. Malar space 2 times diameter of median ocellus; median fovea ditch-like, shallowly reaching to median ocellus; postocellar area elevated, 2 times as broad as long (Figs 45, 46); antenna shorter than combined length of thorax and abdomen, flagellomere 1 about 1.1 times length of flagellomere 2; mesoscutellum bluntly elevated (Figs 37). Ovipositor sheath longer than middle tarsomere 1 in lateral view, valvula 3 sub-round at apex and slightly longer than valvifer 2 in lateral view. Lancet with 21 serrulae (Fig. 78), base of each serrula distinctly elevated, middle serrula each with 2 basal denticles and 4–6 distal denticles (Fig. 90).

Male. (Figs 13, 14, 62, 63): Body length 7 mm. Color and structure similar to female, otherwise: outer side of metafemur with a black stripe, inner side without black stripe, malar space 3x as diameter of median ocellus; flagellomere 1 nearly as long as flagellomere 2; flagellum strongly compressed. Penis valve as in Fig. 103.