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Ichneumon lugens Gravenhorst 1829

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

Ichneumon lugens Gravenhorst, 1829

Notes

One of the most common ichneumonids hibernating below tree bark in north-western Europe.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Austria (9), Belarus (1) *, Belgium (176), Bulgaria (2), Czechia (10) *, Finland (1) *, France (41), Germany (58), Hungary (8), Ireland (1), Italy (7) *, Kosovo (1) **, Latvia (12) *, Lithuania (8) *, Norway (4) **, Poland (7) *, Romania (17), Russia (16), Slovakia (1) **, Spain (1) *, Sweden (7) *, Switzerland (1) *, the Netherlands (138), Ukraine (35), United Kingdom (2) *.

First record: Ca. 1873 (Tischbein (1873 a), Germany).

Hibernacula: DT (934), DTCL (2), M (32), U (9).

Sources: Tischbein (1873 a) [Chasmodes lugens Gr.], Mocsáry (1885) [C. lugens Grav.], Berthoumieu (1894) [C. lugens Grav.], Athimus (1901 a) [C. lugens Gr.], Johnson (1912), Habermehl (1916) [C. lugens Grav.], Pic (1916), Pic (1917) and Pic (1919) [C. lugens Grav.], Seyrig (1923) [C. lugens Gr.], Constantineanu (1929 b) and Constantineanu (1959) [Chasmias lugens Grav.], Györfi (1948), Rasnitsyn (1959) and Rasnitsyn (1964), Aubert (1960) [C. lugens Grav.], Györfi (1963) [C. lugens Grv.], Constantineanu (1969) [C. lugens Grav.], Valemberg and Vago (1974 a), Valemberg (1976 b) and Valemberg (1982), Valemberg and Bosquit (1979), Bauer (1984), Kolarov (1992), Hinz and Kreissl (1992) and Hinz and Kreissl (1993), Sebald et al. (2001), Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005), Valemberg and Vago (2013), Lungu-Constantineanu and Constantineanu (2014) [C. lugens], Pénigot (2020), Varga et al. (2020), Verheyde and Quicke (2022); Unpublished: Artsobservasjoner, Artportalen, Coll. RBINS, Dabasdati, Facebook (Hymenopterists Forum), iNaturalist, Insecte. org, iRecord, Naturgucker, Pers. obs., UKRbin.

Also mentioned in: Morley (1903), Hinz and Horstmann (1999).

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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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gravenhorst
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Ichneumon
Species
lugens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ichneumon lugens Gravenhorst, 1829 sec. Verheyde, Ketelaere, Ørsnes, Pénigot, Storey, Österblad, Cameron, Engan, Fiala, Lutz, Parkhomenko, Gokhman, Dekoninck, Cooleman & Mees, 2025

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