Oodera pumilae Yang, 1996 Figs 4f, 7f, 10f, 13f, 16f

Oodera pumilae Yang, 1996: 100, 311.

Diagnosis.

FEMALE (N = 1). Small-sized (5.81 mm). Head and mesosoma dark green to blue-green. Fore wing partly weakly infumate. Body robust (mesonotum 1.25 × as long as wide). Head oval (1.46 × as high as long). Eyes small (0.59 × as high as head) (Fig. 10f). Corona medium (4.13 × as long as wide), structure continuous (Fig. 7f). Pronotum pentagonal with posterior part distinctly narrowing towards mesoscutum, with broadest part before midlength (Fig. 13f). Mesoscutellum normal (0.71 × as long as wide), anterior margin hardly convex (part anterior to imaginary transverse line connecting posterior margins of axillae less than 1/3 of mesoscutellum length; 0.30), mesoscutellum lineate in anterior third, rugulose in posterior two thirds (Fig. 16f). Propodeum large (0.16 × as long as mesoscutum) (Fig. 16f). Profemur medium (2.15 × as long as wide). Marginal vein medium (1.07 × as long as postmarginal vein). Metasoma medium (0.46 × as long as body). Ovipositor rather long (0.16 × as long as metasoma) (Fig. 4f).

Redescription.

FEMALE. Colour (Figs 4f, 7f, 10f, 13f, 16f). Scape yellow, darkening apically, rest of antenna dark brown. Procoxa and profemur dark green, all other parts of legs dark brown with yellow joints and tarsi. Metasoma dark brown.

Head (Figs 7f, 10f). Face completely reticulate. Head 1.51 × as wide as long. Head width 3.28 × eye distance. Malar space 0.41 × head height. Corona 0.61 × as long as eye height. POL equal to OOL. Scape 2.57 × as long as pedicel. Clava 0.16 × as long as funicle. Flagellum 1.25 × as long as head width.

Mesosoma (Figs 13f, 16f). Pronotum 0.93 × as long as wide. Pronotum 0.55 × as long as mesonotum. Mesonotum 1.44 × as long as mesoscutum. Mesoscutum 0.87 × as long as wide. Mesoscutellum 0.44 × as long as mesoscutum. Profemur 1.29 × as long as protibia.

Wings (Fig. 4f). Fore wing 2.96 × as long as wide. Costal cell 0.38 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 0.20 × as long as fore wing. Marginal vein 3.37 × as long as stigmal vein. Postmarginal vein 3.16 × as long as stigmal vein.

MALE. Unknown.

Material examined.

ASIA. China: female paratype, leg. Z.Q. Yang, 02.07.1989, rest of label in Chinese, det. Z.Q. Yang 1995 (CNC) (OPu01) .

Biology.

Probably parasitic on Scolytus spp. on elm ( Ulmus) trees (Yang 1996).

Distribution.

China (Province: Heilongjiang; Palaearctic part of China) (Yang 1996).

Taxonomic remarks.

We were unable to examine the holotype. Given that the paratype we examined is from the same series as the holotype and that it perfectly matches the (short) description, we decided to include the species in our revision, diagnoses and key without examination of the primary type. Yang (1996) gives some characters to differ between O. pumilae and O. regiae in the English summary. Yet, without full translation of the Chinese descriptions these characters cannot be understood and checked. They are not mandatory though as there are several other characters to differentiate the two species (see diagnoses and key).