Aphelopus nivealis Mita & Olmi, 2014

Olmi, Massimo, Chen, Hua-Yan, Guglielmino, Adalgisa, Ødegaard, Frode, Vollaro, Massimo, Capradossi, Leonardo & Liu, Jing-Xian, 2022, DNA barcoding of Aphelopus Dalman (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae) from China, with descriptions of four new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 794 (1), pp. 40-71 : 61

Aphelopus nivealis Mita & Olmi, 2014

Fig. 15

Aphelopus nivealis Mita & Olmi, 2014: 93 .

Aphelopus nivealis – Olmi & Xu 2015: 25.

Material examined

CHINA • 1 ♀; Guangdong, Guangzhou University Town , secondary forest ; 23°3′9″ N, 113°23′23″ E; 20 Jan.–17 Feb. 2019; Hua-Yan Chen leg.; MT; SCAU 3040508 ( SYSBM) • 1 ♀; Guangdong, Shenzhen, Mt Tanglangshan ; 22.570411639° N, 113.99317344° E; LSX498, 7–30 May 2020; Long-Long Chen leg.; MT-GD7; SCAU 3049357 ( SYSBM) .

Distribution

Japan (Honshu), China (Guangdong) (new record).

Remarks

Aphelopus nivealis Mita & Olmi, 2014 was originally described from the Eastern Palaearctic region (Honshu, Japan) (see Olmi & Xu 2015). In this species there are no notauli. One of the two specimens above (from Guangdong, 22.570411639° N, 113.99317344° E) matches completely with the description of A. nivealis , including the body colour and the absence of notauli ( Fig. 15A–B ). On the contrary, the other specimen (from Guangdong, 23°3′9″ N, 113°23′23″ E) is whiter and seems to have shallow traces of notauli reaching about 0.5 × length of mesoscutum ( Fig. 15C–D ). The genetic distance between the two specimens is only 0.6%, suggesting that the variations are just intraspecific. These records indicate that A. nivealis is present both in the Eastern Palaearctic and the Oriental regions.

Figures

Fig. 15. Aphelopus nivealis Mita & Olmi, 2014. A–B. ♀ (SCAU 3049357) A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Mesosoma, dorsal view. C–D. ♀ (SCAU 3040508) C. Habitus, lateral view. D. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view.