title: A new species of Metopiinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) parasitizing lepidopteran larvae in China.
abstract: A new species of Metopiinae,Trieces etuokensisSheng,sp. n., is described and illustrated. Specimens were reared from two species of Lepidoptera:Bazaria turensis(Ragonot, 1887) (Pyralidae) from Balong, Dulan, Qinghai Province, and an unidentified psychid (Psychidae) from Mukainor, Etuoke, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. The new species is characterized by a yellow face and clypeus, fore and middle femora and hind tibia mainly black, antennae slightly longer than head and mesosoma combined, with 17 flagellomeres, occipital carina entirely absent, and the hind femur being compressed, 2.5 times as its long as maximum width.
authors.affiliation: General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, Shenyang 110034, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, Shenyang 110034, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Mao-Ling
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Sheng
authors.affiliation: Forest Pest Control and Quarantine Station of Etuoke, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 016100, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Zi-Cheng
authors.initials: ZC
authors.lastname: Xiong
keywords: Bazaria turensis; China; Psychidae; Pyralidae; Trieces; new species