A new species in the genus Phytodietus Gravenhorst, 1829, P. xui Kostro-Ambroziak & Reshchikov 2020 from Yunnan is described and published recently by Alexey Reshchikov, researcher from Institute of Eastern-Himalaya Biodiversity Research.

P. longicauda (Uchida, 1931) is recorded for the first time in China and P. spinipes (Cameron, 1905) is recorded in Guangdong and Hunan Provinces. Alexey recalled on his first arrival in Yunnan in spring 2016 he discovered a new species of tortricids parasitoid from the genus Phytodietus at the collection of Kunming Institute of Zoology. The old label says: 中甸 [Zhongdian, nowadays Shangri-La]. The place refers to Northern Yunnan. Now it is out, Phytodietus xui Kostro-Ambroziak & Reshchikov 2020 named after the late Prof. Zaifu Xu (SCAU), who brough me in China for the first time. As they established mountain stations on Mt. Baima not far from the type locality soon we will say more on this species distribution. If that wasp still survives within subalpine conifer or mixed forests here? These forests are the transition between tropical and temperate zones.

The new discovery is published in journal Zootaxa, 10 November, you can check the paper by doi,   https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4877.2.11 2.11