Big and beautiful: the Megaxyela species (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae) of East Asia and North America

  • Stephan M. Blank Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalder Str. 90, 15374 Müncheberg
  • Katja Kramp Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalder Str. 90, 15374 Müncheberg
  • David R. Smith Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013-7012
  • Yuri N. Sundikov State Nature Reserve “Kurilskiy”, Zarechnaya str. 5, Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Sakhalinskaya oblast, 694500
  • Meicai Wei Key Laboratory of Cultivation and Protection for Non-Wood Forest Trees (Central South University of Forestry and Technology), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410004
  • Akihiko Shinohara Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0005
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.348
Keywords: key, new species, distribution, larval hostplants, COI barcoding

Abstract

Megaxyela Ashmead, 1898 comprises 13 species, four of which are described as new and one is removed from synonymy: Megaxyela euchroma Blank, Shinohara & Wei sp. nov. from China (Zheijang), M. fulvago Blank, Shinohara & Wei sp. nov. from China (Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang), M. inversa Blank & D.R. Smith sp. nov. from the USA (West Virginia), M. langstoni Ross, 1936 sp. rev. from the eastern USA, and M. pulchra Blank, Shinohara & Sundukov sp. nov. from China (Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Tibet), South Korea (Kangwon-do) and Russia (Primorskiy Kray). The male of M. parki Shinohara, 1992 is described for the first time. A lectotype is designated for M. gigantea Mocsáry, 1909. A cladogram, based on COI sequences of seven species, is presented and interpreted in view of selected morphological characters. Records of M. fulvago sp. nov. from Hunan and of M. pulchra sp. nov. from Tibet extend the known distribution of Megaxyela in the Old World 600 kilometers farther south and 2500 kilometers farther west than previous records.

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2017-09-05
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Blank, S. M., Kramp, K., Smith, D. R., Sundikov, Y. N., Wei, M., & Shinohara, A. (2017). Big and beautiful: the Megaxyela species (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae) of East Asia and North America. European Journal of Taxonomy, (348). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.348
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