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27D2157212025DA8B0DAE53ED9115F7A.text	27D2157212025DA8B0DAE53ED9115F7A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhysipolis taiwanicus Belokobylskij 1988	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Rhysipolis taiwanicus Belokobylskij, 1988</p>
            <p>Figs 1-5, 6-11, 12-13, 14-15</p>
            <p>Notes.</p>
            <p> Rhysipolis taiwanicus Belokobylskij is a rarely collected species known from Taiwan and Vietnam (Belokobylskij 1988; Long and Belokobylskij 2004). It can be easily differentiated from similar species by the small stemmaticum and ocelli, the glabrous middle lobe of the mesoscutum, the strongly receding temples behind the eyes and the subglobular head (Zhang et al. 2016). The stemmaticum is situated comparatively close to the antennal sockets (Fig. 15). The body length of the imagines is 3.2-4.0 mm (Belokobylskij 1988; this paper) and are slender with long straight antennae when alive but the antennae are curled up after death (Figs 10 - 12) as in most  Rhysipolinae . </p>
            <p>Biology.</p>
            <p> The bright yellow cocoons were on the upper side of the leaf and appeared to naked eyes as little fried eggs (Fig. 1). At closer look, they resembled elongated trampolines fixed to a leaf by silken threads (Figs 2-5). All cocoons were found at the distal part of the leaf (Fig. 1) and the average size was 5.67  ± 0.63 mm long (Fig. 6). The wasps inside the cocoons were showing obvious movement (Figs 3-5) before hatching simultaneously 13 days after the collecting of the leaves. </p>
            <p> Checking for small lepidopterans occurring on  Rhaphiolepis indica seems to be the best possible tactic to discover the unknown host of  Rhysipolis taiwanicus .  Rhaphiolepis indica is one of the most common shrubs on hillsides in Hong Kong. So far seven species of caterpillars are known to feed on this plant (Table 1). Given the recorded hosts of  Rhysipolis species are mainly leaf-mining microlepidopterans belonging to the  Gracillariidae and to a much lower degree to  Gelechiidae ,  Psychidae and  Pyralidae (Yu et al. 2016; Zhang et al. 2016), it may worth to have a close look at  Dichomeris ochthophora Meyrick, 1936 (Li et al. 2010) in due course to investigate if it could be the unknown host of  Rhysipolis taiwanicus Belokobylskij. A second choice would be  Chalioides kondonis Kondo, 1922. </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/27D2157212025DA8B0DAE53ED9115F7A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	van Achterberg, Cornelis;Lau, Clive Siu-Ki	van Achterberg, Cornelis, Lau, Clive Siu-Ki (2022): Biological notes on Rhysipolis taiwanicus Belokobylskij (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rhysipolinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 93: 81-87, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.93.94165, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.93.94165
