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Exochus varipes Tolkanitz 1993

Description

Exochus varipes Tolkanitz, 1993

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Material examined. Holotype: male, RUSSIA, Sakhalin Region: 6–9 km E of Novo-Aleksandrovsk, 14.vii.1990, leg. A. Basarukin (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus varipes is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, yellow; frons black; yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight, yellow; malar space yellow; occipital carina absent dorsally; meso- and metasoma black except upper hind corner of pronotum, subtegular ridge and epicnemium yellow; propodeum with area superomedia closed apically, costulae distinct; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite straight from the proximal end, wedge-shaped; legs: fore and mid coxae, trochanters and trochantelli yellow, hind coxae and trochanters partly black, hind femur orange with dark dorsal line, tibiae fuscous basally and apically, yellowish centrally.

Distribution. Known from Western Ukraine and Eastern Russia (Tolkanitz 2007a).

Notes

Published as part of Varga, Oleksandr, 2021, Types of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae Metopiinae) deposited at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, pp. 173-193 in Zootaxa 4985 (2) on pages 190-191, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4943091

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SIZK
Event date
1990-07-14
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Exochus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Tolkanitz
Species
varipes
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1990-07-14
Taxonomic concept label
Exochus varipes Tolkanitz, 1993 sec. Varga, 2021

References

  • Tolkanitz, V. I. (1993) New Palearctic species of the genus Exochus (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Metopiinae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 72 (3), 92 - 105. [in Russian]
  • Tolkanitz, V. I. (2007 a) Ichneumon flies of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) of the fauna of Palaearctic region. Russian Entomological Journal, 16 (3), 339 - 358.