Shimizu So, Watanabe Kyohei
Sugadaira Montane Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Sugadaira Kogen, Ueda, Nagano 386-2204, Japan.; Email:
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Iryuda 499, Odawara, Kanagawa 250-0031, Japan.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Aug 13;4000(1):111-22. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.1.5.
The genus Leptophion Cameron, 1901, which belongs to the subfamily Ophioninae Shuckard, 1840, is recorded from Japan and the Palaearctic region for the first time based on two new species, L. parvus sp. nov. from Amamioshima Island and L. septentrionis sp. nov. from Yakushima and Amamioshima Island. A key to the Japanese and Taiwanese species is also provided.
细尾姬蜂属(Leptophion Cameron,1901)隶属于姬蜂亚科(Ophioninae Shuckard,1840),基于采自奄美大岛的新物种小细尾姬蜂(Leptophion parvus sp. nov.)以及采自屋久岛和奄美大岛的新物种北方细尾姬蜂(Leptophion septentrionis sp. nov.),首次在日本及古北区被记录。同时还提供了日本及台湾地区物种检索表。