Phanerotomella namkyensis Sigwalt 1978

Phanerotomella namkyensis Sigwalt, 1978 Phanerotomella namkyensis Sigwalt, 1978 - Sigwalt (1878): 719; Zettel (1989): 54; Long and Belokobylskij (2004): 387. Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ZJUH No. 202401002; recordedBy: Jiangli Tan; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 500A784D-DE18-551D-A170-B4C4DBCA5FA8; Taxon: scientificName: Phanerotomella namkyensis Sigwalt, 1978; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Hainan; locality: Yingge Ridge; Event: verbatimEventDate: 30 April 2010; Record Level: institutionCode: ZJUH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Diagnosis Carapace dark brown, except the first and second tergites yellow medially; metasoma narrowing to apex and widest at basal half; lateral border of metasomal carapace curved; temple yellow and without two brown spots behind eye; eye in lateral view 1.3 times wider than maximum width of temple; scapus and pedicellus in lateral view ivory and distinctly contrasting with dark brown flagellum; antenna of ♀ slender, third, fourth, tenth and fifteenth segments 3.4, 3.1, 2.2 and 1.6 × longer than wide in lateral view, respectively; vein m-cu of fore-wing antefurcal; hind femur 3.3 times longer than wide. Distribution China (Hainan) (Figs 1, 2), Vietnam. Remarks P. namkyensis Sigwalt, 1978 is similar to P. hawaiiensis (Ashmead, 1901) due to having similar colouration of the body and hind femur. However, P. namkyensis Sigwalt, 1978 can be distinguished from P. hawaiiensis (Ashmead, 1901) by metasoma narrowing to apex and widest at basal half (metasoma symmetrically-shaped and position of maximum width in middle in the latter), temple without two brown spots behind eye (with two brown spots behind eye in the latter), antenna of ♀ comparatively slender (widened medially in the latter), scapus and pedicellus in lateral view ivory and distinctly contrasting with dark brown flagellum (scapus and pedicellus in lateral view dark brown and no contrasting with dark brown flagellum in the latter).