Contribution to the knowledge on the spider wasps genus Morochares Banks, 1934 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from China

Valery M Loktionov; Arkady S Lelej; Jing-Xian Liu

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.3

Contribution to the knowledge on the spider wasps genus Morochares Banks, 1934 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from China

Zootaxa. 2018 Aug 29;4462(4):497-510. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.3.

Authors

Valery M Loktionov¹, Arkady S Lelej, Jing-Xian Liu

Affiliation

¹ Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok-22, 690022, Russia.. pompilidaefer@mail.ru.

PMID: 30313455
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.4.3

Abstract

Five species of the genus Morochares Banks, 1934 are reported from China, four of them are described and illustrated as new species: M. sinica Loktionov Lelej, sp. nov. (Guangdong, Hainan), M. wahisi Loktionov Lelej, sp. nov. (Hainan), M. wolfi Loktionov Lelej, sp. nov. (Guangdong) and M. xuzaifui Loktionov, Lelej Liu, sp. nov. (Zhejiang, Guangdong). The genus Morochares is newly recorded from mainland China. A key to the females of the Chinese species is given.

Keywords: Hymenoptera, Pompilinae, Oriental Region, Palaearctic, China, new record.

MeSH terms

Animals
China
Female
Hymenoptera*
Wasps*