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Issue: Vol. 2359 No. 1: 15 Feb. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-02-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2359.1.4
Page range: 58–60
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

A rare genus Odontopsen Tsuneki in China (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Crabronidae), with description of a new species

Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310029,China
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China
Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310029,China
Hymenoptera Apoidea Crabronidae

Abstract

The genus Odontopsen Tsuneki was erected by Tsuneki (1964) as a subgenus of the genus Psen Latreille, 1796. Bohart and Menke (1976) raised it to an independent genus. The type species, O. hanedai (Tsuneki, 1964) was found in the Konsei-Pass Nikko, at about 2100 m altitude, in the mountains of central Honshu Island, Japan. No other species of this genus was found in the following almost half a century.

References

  1. Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A.S. (1976) Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 695pp.

    Tsuneki, K. (1964) An interesting new species of the genus Psen captured in Japan with the erection of a new subgenus (Hym.: Sphec.: Pemphredoninae). Insecta Matsumurana, 27, 12–15.