Synergus chinensis Melika, Ács & Bechtold, 2014

Schwéger, Szabina, Melika, George, Tang, Chang-Ti, Bihari, Péter, Bozsó, Miklós, Stone, Graham N., Nicholls, James A. & Pénzes, Zsolt, 2015, New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Synergus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from the Eastern Palaearctic, Zootaxa 3999 (4), pp. 451-497 : 485

Synergus chinensis Melika, Ács & Bechtold, 2014

Figs 123–133

This species was described from north-eastern China (Beijing Province, Mentougou District, 150 km NW of Beijing), reared from unknown cynipid acorn, leaf and bud galls ( Melika et al. 2004). It was later found by one of the authors (GM) in South Korea ( Abe et al. 2007). Kovalev (1965) mentioned S. gallaepomiformis (Boyer de Fonscolombe) for the Far East of Russia, which was reared from asexual galls of Andricus hakonensis (= A. symbioticus , = A. attractus ). We strongly doubt this identification. On the basis of the adult description given by Kovalev, these specimens belong to S. chinensis ( Abe et al. 2007) . Synergus chinensis falls into a subclade with S. symbioticus and can be easily distinguished from the latter by some strong diagnostic characters given in the key and in the Diagnosis to S. symbioticus . Currently known from China, South Korea and Russia.

Figures

FIGURES 123 – 129. Synergus chinensis, 123 – 125, head, female: 123, frontal view, 124, dorsal view, 125, posterior view. 126 – 127, head, male: 126, frontal view, 127, dorsal view. 128 – 129, antenna: 128, female, 129, male.

FIGURES 130 – 133. Synergus chinensis, female: 130, pronotum and propleuron, frontal view, 131, mesosoma, lateral view, 132, mesoscutum and metascutellum, dorsal view, 133, metasoma, part, lateral view.