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Ichneumon proletarius Wesmael 1848

Description

Ichneumon proletarius Wesmael, 1848

Notes

Very common near the Mediterranean sea (Hilpert 1992). Constantineanu (1929 b) says it is the most common species during his surveys, sometimes observing more than a hundred specimens on a dead tree trunk.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: France (4), Germany (2), Romania (14), Russia (2).

First record: Ca. 1879 (Tischbein (1879), Germany).

Hibernacula: DT (17), DTCL (1), LV (3), M (2), U (5).

Sources: Tischbein (1879) [Ichneumon intermixtus Tischb.], Berthoumieu (1894), Seyrig (1923), Constantineanu (1929 a) / Constantineanu (1929 b) and Constantineanu (1959), Rasnitsyn (1964) [I. intermixtus Tischb.], Constantineanu (1969), Sebald et al. (2001), Lungu-Constantineanu and Constantineanu (2014).

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
Wesmael
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Ichneumon
Species
proletarius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ichneumon proletarius Wesmael, 1848 sec. Verheyde, Ketelaere, Ørsnes, Pénigot, Storey, Österblad, Cameron, Engan, Fiala, Lutz, Parkhomenko, Gokhman, Dekoninck, Cooleman & Mees, 2025

References

  • Hilpert Hubert 1992 Zur Systematik der Gattung Ichneumon Linnaeus, 1758 in der Westpaläarktis (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) Entomofauna Suppl. 1 389 https://www.zobodat.at/publikation_articles.php?id=43356
  • Constantineanu Mihai I. 1929 Contributions à l'étude des ichneumonides en Roumanie Annales Scientifiques de l'Université de Jassy 15 386 642 https://dspace.bcu-iasi.ro/handle/123456789/478
  • Tischbein P. F. 1879 Zusätze und Bemerkungen zu der Uebersicht der europäischen Arten des Genus Ichneumon Entomologische Zeitung (Stettin) 40 20 40 https://www.zobodat.at/publikation_articles.php?id=247664
  • Berthoumieu Victor 1894 Ichneumonides d'Europe et de pays limitrophes: 1 er Tribu – Ichneumoniens, Section I [last part] + Section II Annales de Société Entomologique de France 63 505 664 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8188
  • Seyrig André 1923 Observations sur la biologie des ichneumons Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 92 4 345 362 10.1080/21686351.1923.12279953
  • Constantineanu Mihai I. 1929 Nouvelle contribution à la faune ichneumonologique de la Roumanie Annales Scientifiques de l'Université de Jassy 15 213 247 http://dspace.bcu-iasi.ro/handle/123456789/478
  • Constantineanu Mihai I 1959 Familia Ichneumonidae, Subfamilia Ichneumoninae, Tribul Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae Fauna Republicii Populare Romîne Insecta 9 4 1 1248 Romanian
  • Rasnitsyn A. P. 1964 Overwintering of ichneumon flies (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Entomogical Review 43 1 24 26
  • Constantineanu RM 1969 Contribuţii la cunoaşterea hibernării ichneumonidelor adulte din arbori căzuţi din pădurea Birnova (jud. Iaşi) Studii si cercetari de biologie: Seria Zoologie = Romanian Journal of Biology: Zoology 21 2 183 189 Romanian https://www.ibiol.ro/studii/zoologie/archive.htm
  • Sebald Helmut, Schönitzer Klaus, Diller Erich 2001 Überwinternde Ichneumoniden in Bayern (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen 50 1-2 42 50 https://www.zobodat.at/publikation_articles.php?id=139647
  • Lungu-Constantineanu Camil Ştefan, Constantineanu Raoul 2014 New data on ichneumonid hibernation (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in the Bârnova forest massif (Iaşi county, Romania) Studii si Cercetari de Biologie: Seria Zoologie = Romanian Journal of Biology: Zoology 59 1 11 16 Romanian https://www.ibiol.ro/zoology/revue59n1.html