Review of the Pachyprotasis flavipes group (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) from China with descriptions of two new species

The flavipes group of Pachyprotasis Hartig, 1837, with twenty-four species recognized in China, is reviewed. This number includes two newly described species, rufodorsata sp. nov., from Sichuan, Hubei, Ningxia, and Shaanxi provinces, nigritarsalia Hunan province. mesopleuron metapleuron the new are reddish-brown, distinguishing them other similar P. group. Thirty-four this have been recorded one ( variegate Fallén, 1808) was found to be widespread throughout Europe Siberia, were originally China Burma-Yunnan frontier, eleven India, five Japan. A key provided.