Phytodietus spinipes (Cameron, 1905)

Kostro-Ambroziak, Agata & Reshchikov, Alexey, 2016, First report of the genus Phytodietus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae) from Thailand, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8027-8027 : 8027

Phytodietus spinipes (Cameron, 1905)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: T6109 ; recordedBy: Wongchai, P.; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: country: Thailand; verbatimLocality: Chiang Mai, Doi Phahompok National Park, Doi Phaluang; verbatimElevation: 1449 m; verbatimLatitude: 20°1.06'N; verbatimLongitude: 99°9.581'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Agata Kostro-Ambroziak; Event: eventDate: 28.v.-7.vi. 2008; Record Level: institutionCode: QSBG Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: T2964 ; recordedBy: Seesom. K; individualCount: 3; sex: female; Location: country: Thailand; verbatimLocality: Chiang Mai, Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park, Kewlom1/montane forest; verbatimElevation: 2174 m; verbatimLatitude: 20°3.549'N; verbatimLongitude: 99°8.552'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Agata Kostro-Ambroziak; Event: eventDate: 14-21.ii.2008; Record Level: institutionCode: QSBG Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: T5587 ; recordedBy: Anuchart; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: country: Thailand; verbatimLocality: Chiang Mai, Huai Nam Dang National Park, Guest house; verbatimLatitude: 19°18.803'N; verbatimLongitude: 98°36.395'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Agata Kostro-Ambroziak; Event: eventDate: 7-14.i.2008; Record Level: institutionCode: QSBG Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: T5615 ; recordedBy: Anuchart &Thawatchai; individualCount: 1; sex: female; Location: country: Thailand; verbatimLocality: Chiang Mai, Huai Nam Dang National Park, Thung Buatong View Point; verbatimLatitude: 19°17.56'N; verbatimLongitude: 98°36.029'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Agata Kostro-Ambroziak; Event: eventDate: 9-10.ii.2008; Record Level: institutionCode: QSBG Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: W. Srisuka R. Sawkord S. Pilakantha C. Sulin and T.Somboonchai; individualCount: 1; sex: female; otherCatalogNumbers: QSBG2014-67; Location: country: Thailand; stateProvince: Chiangmai; county: Fang; locality: Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park ; verbatimLocality: Route to summit; verbatimElevation: 2036; verbatimLatitude: 20°03'01.5"N; verbatimLongitude: 99°08'38.6"E; Identification: identifiedBy: Alexey Reshchikov; Event: samplingEffort: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 28.i-28.ii.2014; Record Level: institutionCode: QSBG Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: W. Srisuka R. Sawkord T. Somboonchai and S. Suriya; individualCount: 1; sex: female; otherCatalogNumbers: QSBG2014-140; Location: country: Thailand; stateProvince: Chiangmai; county: Fang; locality: Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park ; verbatimLocality: Route to summit; verbatimElevation: 2105 m; verbatimLatitude: 20°03'17.7"N; verbatimLongitude: 99°08'32.6"E; Identification: identifiedBy: Alexey Reshchikov; Event: samplingEffort: Malaise trap; verbatimEventDate: 1-30. iv. 2014; Record Level: institutionCode: QSBG

Diagnosis

P. spinipes (Figs 7, 8) can be distinguished from other Thai species of Phytodietus by having the dorsolateral margins of the first metasomal tergite sharp along the whole length (Fig. 3c, d) (mostly rounded in the other species (Fig. 3a, b)), and the body predominantly black (Fig. 7), with numerous yellow marks (predominantly yellow in the other two species (Figs 1, 4)). Among other Oriental species of Phytodietus which are similar in colour pattern P. spinipes is relatively easy to recognize by the following combination of characters: eye orbits yellow (Fig. 8a), face completely or largely yellow (sometimes very pale yellow), hind femur orange, and hind tibia and tarsus black (sometimes tibia slightly paler basally).

Distribution

P. spinipes was originally described from Sri Lanka ( Cameron 1905) but it has also been recorded in China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar and Taiwan ( Yu et al. 2012).

Biology

Data suggests that P. spinipes also has more than one generation per year. It has been recorded in: March in Myanmar, October in Java ( Kaur and Jonathan 1979), January, February, April, May and the beginning of the June in Thailand. It has been collected at an altitude of 1000 m a.s.l. in Myanmar ( Kaur and Jonathan 1979) and 1449-2174 m a.s.l. in Thailand. P. spinipes was collected in different types of forest in Thailand: (a) A moist evergreen montane forest with Cinnamomum verum J. Presl., Prunus cerasoides D. Don, Schima wallichii (DC.) Korth. and Strychnos axillaris Colebr. covered with mosses, ferns, lichens, orchids and other epiphytes, (b) In hill evergreen forest with Acer oblongum Wall. ex DC., Anneslea fragrans Wall., Betula alnoides Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don, Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers., Magnolia hodgsonii (Hook. f. & Thomson) H. Keng, Pinus kesiya Royle ex Gordon, Quercus kingiana Craib, Quercus semiserrata Roxb., (c) In a pine forest with Pinus kesiya Royle ex Gordon and Pinus merkusii Jungh. et de Vriese being the dominant tree species.

P. spinipes is known to be a parasitoid of Homona coffearia (Nietner) ( Tortricidae ), the tea Tortrix in Sri Lanka, Taiwan ( Gupta 1987) and India ( Muraleedharan and Selvasundaram 1991). In Java this species has been reared from Homona sp. ( Kaur and Jonathan 1979).