Praestochrysis shanghaiensis (Smith, 1874)

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171. Praestochrysis shanghaiensis (Smith, 1874)

Praestochrysis shanghaiensis Chrysis Shanghaiensis Smith, 1874b: 460. Holotype ♀, China: Shanghai (469 (descr.), depository: BMNH).

Chrysis (Pentachrysis) mandarina Mocsáry, 1889: 522. Holotype ♀, China: Ta-tschian-sy (522 (descr.), depository: HNHM) (synonymised by Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 534).

Chrysis (Pentachrysis) shanghaiensis : Mocsáry, 1889: 522 (China borealis, tax., descr.); Bischoff 1910: 486 (China [Shandong]: Kiautschou [= Jiaozhou Bay], cat.); Bischoff 1913: 63 (North China, cat.); Uchida 1927: 152 (North China, Taiwan, cat.); Tsuneki 1953a: 60 (South Manchuria [Liaoning]: Dairen [= Dalian], Tashonshan, tax.); Tsuneki 1955: 36 (key), 43 (tax.), 44 (descr., figs 15-20, 46 (China, Dairen [= Dalian], Taiwan, biol.); Tsuneki 1970b: 18 (Taiwan: Penpuchi, Kuanfu, cat.); Tsuneki 1970c: 49 (eastern part of China, Manchuria, North China, key, tax.).

Chrysis shanghaiensis : Dalla Torre 1892: 95 (China borealis, cat.); du Buysson 1898c: 82 (China: Tché-li, Han-Kèou, Shanghai, tax., biol., morphology), pl. 1 (figs 1-7); du Buysson 1901a: 29 (China: Tché-li, Shanghai, tax., biol.); Seurat 1901: 236 (Shanghai, tax., biol.); Bingham 1903: 438 (key), 477 (tax., descr.), 478 (China, distr.); Hammer 1950: 1 (China: Kiansu [= Jiangsu], cat.).

Praestochrysis shanghaiensis : Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 534 (China, cat.); He et al. 2004: 889 (cat.); Kurzenko and Lelej 2007: 1006 (China, Taiwan, cat.); Terayama et al. 2010: 6 (figs.), 9 (China, Taiwan, cat.), 12 (tab., biol.).

Material examined.

1♂, China, 1947, Ming Po, Coll. Linsenmaier; 1♀ / J. de Joannis / with pinned cocoon; 1 ♂, [Hori, Formosa, 25.V.'32 / L. Gressitt Collection; 1 ♂, China, Ningpo, 1. -5.7.1934, Naef; 2 ♀♀, Chusan [= Zhoushan, Zhejiang] China, Juni, 1948, Collect. Naef. All the specimens were identified by Linsenmaier (NMLS).

Distribution.

China (Liaoning, Jiangsu, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan). Japan, Indin (He et al. 2004).

Host.

Monema flavescens ( Lepidoptera , Limacodiidae ) (du Buysson 1898c, 1901a, Seurat 1901). Various studies on the parasitism by Praestochrysis shanghaiensis have been published ( Yamada 1980, 1987a, 1987b, 1988, 1990, 1991; Komeda and Hisamatsu 2005).