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Diphyus latebricola

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend, Belgium & Aculea (Natuurpunt), Mechelen, Belgium & Scientific collaborator at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2. Scientific collaborator at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium & Aculea (Natuurpunt), Mechelen, Belgium
  • 3. Unaffiliated, Bodø, Norway
  • 4. Unaffiliated, Occitanie, France
  • 5. Unaffiliated, Wimborne, United Kingdom
  • 6. Unaffiliated, Jungsund, Finland
  • 7. Unaffiliated, Wester Ross, United Kingdom
  • 8. Unaffiliated, Oslo, Norway
  • 9. Unaffiliated, Přerov, Czech Republic
  • 10. Unaffiliated, Borup, Denmark
  • 11. Unaffiliated, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 12. Russian Entomological Society, Moscow, Russia
  • 13. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
  • 14. Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Brussels, Belgium
  • 15. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend, Belgium

Description

Diphyus latebricola (Wesmael, 1845)

Notes

One of the oldest hibernation records we have. It was described by Wesmael ‘ inter arbustorum radices sub terra degens’ near Brussels - this could either mean between the roots of bushes in the soil, but also, more likely, below the decaying roots of a tree which fell over. This interpretation also matches Bauer (1984) (‘ in Wurzeltellern’). A third specimen is reported from a cave in France. On several citizen-science portals, specimens are reported in April near dead wood, in the Baltic States and Russia.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Belgium (1), France (1) *, Germany (1).

First record: Ca. 1844 (Wesmael (1844), Belgium).

Hibernacula: C (1), DTCL (2).

Sources: Wesmael (1844) [Amblyteles latebricola], Bauer (1984); Unpublished: Pers. obs.

Also mentioned in: Constantineanu (1959) [Amblyteles latebricola Wesm.].

Notes

Published as part of Verheyde, Fons, De Ketelaere, Augustijn, Ørsnes, Geir, Pénigot, William, Storey, Malcolm, Österblad, Ika, Cameron, Al, Engan, Gunnar, Fiala, Miroslav, Lutz, Jonas, Parkhomenko, Maksym, Gokhman, Vladimir E, Dekoninck, Wouter, Cooleman, Stijn & Mees, Jan, 2025, First comprehensive catalogue of hibernating Darwin wasps in the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. e 176441 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e176441, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e176441

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4537D2FEEEB25E1DB15CE69A46BD0CA7

Related works

Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e176441 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/46D744474A375A3FB15527362B9D68E7 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4537D2FEEEB25E1DB15CE69A46BD0CA7 (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wesmael
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Diphyus
Species
latebricola
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Diphyus latebricola (Wesmael, 1845) sec. Verheyde, Ketelaere, Ørsnes, Pénigot, Storey, Österblad, Cameron, Engan, Fiala, Lutz, Parkhomenko, Gokhman, Dekoninck, Cooleman & Mees, 2025

References

  • Bauer Rudolf 1984 Die Überwinterung von Insekten mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ichneumoniden Wissenschaftliche Beilage in Jahresbericht des Neuen Gymnasiums Nürnberg 1983-1984 105 120
  • Wesmael Constantin 1844 Tentamen dispositionis methodicae ichneumonum Belgii Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique 18 1 238 Latin 10.5962/bhl.title.66034
  • Constantineanu Mihai I 1959 Familia Ichneumonidae, Subfamilia Ichneumoninae, Tribul Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae Fauna Republicii Populare Romîne Insecta 9 4 1 1248 Romanian