Discovery of Xestophanopsis gen. n. from China and taxonomic revision of two species misplaced in Ceroptres Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea: Cynipidae)

Authors

• Juli Pujade-Villar Department of Animal Biology, Barcelona University, Barcelona 08028, Catalunya
• Yiping Wang College of Forest and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Lin’an 311300, China
• Zhiwei Liu Eastern Illinois University, Department of Life Sciences, Charleston, Illinois, USA 61920, and Central South University of Forestry & Technology, College of Life Sciences, Changsha, Hunan, China, 412006
• Xuexin Chen Institute of Insect Sciences, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
• Junhua He Institute of Insect Sciences, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
• Mar Ferrer-Suay American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33338/ef.84149

Abstract

In the present paper, we describe Xestophanopsis Pujade-Villar & Wang gen. n. to the tribe Diastrophini based on Ceroptres distinctus Wang, Liu & Chen, 2012 and transfer Ceroptres distinctus Wang, Liu & Chen, 2012 to Periclistus Foerster, 1869 as Periclistus setosus (Wang, Liu & Chen, 2012) comb. n. In addition, we report the first record of Periclistus capillatus Kovalev, 1968 from China, along with the first report and description of the male. Finally, we provide a taxonomic key to all Eastern Palaearctic species of the genus Periclistus.