Tiphia (Tiphia) lawrencei Allen 1975

Tiphia (Tiphia) lawrencei Allen, 1975, new record (Figs 103–110) Tiphia (Tiphia) lawrencei Allen, 1975: 70–71; Boni Bartalucci, 2010: 125. Material examined. 4♀, China, Jiangxi prov., Yichun City, Yuanzhou County, Wentang Town, Mingyue Mountain, 27°21′36″N, 114°9′0″E, 515 m, 27.VII.2021, Xiangping Liao (CNU); 1♀, China, Jiangxi prov., Pingxiang City, Luxi County, Xinlai Town, Dajiangbian Village, Wugong Mountain, 27°19′6″N, 114°4′30″E, 426 m, 28.VIII.2021, Xiangping Liao (CNU). Diagnosis. Female (Fig. 103). Body length 7.7–8.2 mm, forewing length 4.1–4.7 mm. Mandible (Fig. 104) without distinct medial transverse groove and preapical denticle, atmost with obsolete intermittent impressed line; clypeus (Fig. 104) medially with dense punctures, sparser laterally, apex medially rounded; upper frons (Fig. 104) and vertex (Fig. 105) with sparser punctures than lower frons; pronotal anterior carina absent, anterior half of pronotum with sparse punctures, posterior half impunctate (Fig. 103); pronotum latero-ventrally (Fig. 106) with distinct groove in middle, area above groove smooth, area below groove with dense oblique striae; mesoscutum medially with dense punctures, sparser laterally, anterior medial groove separated from notaulus; metanotum (Fig. 108) almost impunctate; tegula atmost slightly longer than middle width, posterior margin without transverse impressed line; inner face of hind basitarsus (Fig. 107) medially without longitudinal groove; horizontal area of propodeal dorsal face (Fig. 108) almost impunctate, with several sparse punctures, oblique area with dense coarse punctures and without submarginal carina, posteriorly with short longitudinal striae connecting transverse carina; propodeal areola (Fig. 108) irregularly pitted along inner margin of lateral carina, areola rectangular, APWL=3.2: 2.9: 6.9, medial longitudinal carina extending posterior margin of areola; S1 (Fig. 109) with minute punctures, with posterolateral groove reaching the anterior apex; anterior half of pygidium (Fig. 110) with dense punctures, posterior half smooth. Male. Unknown. Distribution. China (Jiangxi); India; Thailand.
Published as part of Han, Qian, Wang, He-Sheng, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the nominotypical subgenus Tiphia Fabricius, 1775 (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from China, with three new species and a key to the Chinese species, pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 5284 (1) on pages 33-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7918890
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