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Research Project: Systematics of Parasitic and Herbivorous Wasps of Agricultural Importance

Location: Systematic Entomology Laboratory

Title: The Xiphydria annulitibia group in northeastern Asia (Hymenoptera, Xiphydriidae)

Author
item SHINOHARA, AKIHIKO - National Museum Of Nature And Science
item HARA, H. - Hokkaido Research Organization
item SMITH, D. - Retired ARS Employee

Submitted to: Zootaxa
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/10/2020
Publication Date: 3/17/2020
Citation: Shinohara, A., Hara, H., Smith, D.R. 2020. The Xiphydria annulitibia group in northeastern Asia (Hymenoptera, Xiphydriidae). Zootaxa. 4755:375-389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa 4755.2.11

Interpretive Summary: Wood-boring wasps can cause damage to forest trees and decrease the value of lumber. They can be easily introduced outside their normal range by commerce and several have been introduced into North America in wood. One group feeds primarily in deciduous trees, and there has been at least one introduction from Europe. A group that includes five species in Japan and eastern Asia and which live in the wood of alder and birch is revised. Two of the species are new. All are described and illustrated, and a key is given for their identification. This will be of interested to researchers studying wood-boring insects and may be of assistance in identification of wood-borers intercepted at ports-of-entry in the United States.

Technical Abstract: The Xiphydria annulitibia group is defined to include the following five species from northeastern Asia: X. annulitibia Takeuchi, 1936, from Japan (Hokkaido, Kunashiri Is., Honshu, Shikoku), Korea and Russia (Sakhalin, Primorskij kraj), X. kanba n. sp. from Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu), X. kastsheevi Ermolenko, 1979, from Russia (Primorskij Kraj), X. konishii n. sp. from Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu) and X. melanoptera n. sp. from Japan (Hokkaido). Xiphydria annulitibia is redescribed based on a long series of specimens, including the holotype. Three new species, X. kanba, X. konishii and X. melanoptera, are described and illustrated, and a key is provided for the five species. Xiphydria kastsheevi is excluded from the fauna of Japan. For X. kanba, notes on a rare successful case of branch trapping which yielded 87 adult specimens and observations on the adult emergence from a dead branch and peculiar drumming behavior of the male are given.