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Exephanes occupator

Description

Exephanes occupator (Gravenhorst, 1829)

Notes

Very similar to E. venustus, collecting a specimen is necessary (Hinz and Horstmann 2000). A more thorough study on the ecology of this species was made by Zwolfer (1962).

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Germany (2), United Kingdom (1).

First record: 1926 (Büttner (1932), Germany).

Hibernacula: C (3).

Sources: Büttner (1932), Baird and Shaw (2019); Unpublished: GBIF.

Also mentioned in: Zwolfer (1962).

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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References

  • Gravenhorst J. L. C. 1829 Ichneumonologia Europaea, Pars I Published by the author Bratislava 827 Latin 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11531
  • Hinz Rolf, Horstmann Klaus 2000 Die westpaläarktischen Arten von Exephanes Wesmael (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) Spixiana: Zeitschrift für Zoologie 23 1 15 32 https://www.zobodat.at/publikation_articles.php?id=140181
  • Zwolfer H. 1962 Observations on the parasites of Hydroecia micacea Esp. and H. petasitis Dbl Technical Bulletin of the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control 4 2 101 158
  • Büttner Kurt 1932 Die Stollen, Bergwerke und Höhlen in der Umgebung von Zwickau und ihre Tierwelt: Nachtrag Jahresbericht des Vereins für Naturkunde zu Zwickau i. S. 1931-1932 28-35https://www.zobodat.at/publikation_articles.php?id=402431
  • Baird Katty, Shaw Mark R. 2019 Overwintering behaviour of Diphyus quadripunctorius (Müller) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) in south-east Scotland Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 155 4 217 225 10.31184/m00138908.1554.4001