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Scambus pomorum
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
Scambus pomorum (Ratzeburg, 1848)
Notes
Similar to S. elegans. The life cycle of this univoltine species is well described by Zijp and Blommers (2002). Found also exclusively hibernating on evergreen trees.
Status: Confirmed.
Records: The Netherlands (1), United Kingdom (7).
First record: 31. XII. 1923 (Hancock (1925), United Kingdom).
Hibernacula: LT (9).
Sources: Hancock (1925) [Pimpla pomorum Ratz.], Zijp and Blommers (2002); Unpublished: iNaturalist.
Also mentioned in: Fitton et al. (1988), Shaw (2006), Verheyde and Quicke (2022).
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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- 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/3BB60C50469D5CAD960FDED6FD3A948C (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ratzeburg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Scambus
- Species
- pomorum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scambus pomorum (Ratzeburg, 1848) sec. Verheyde, Ketelaere, Ørsnes, Pénigot, Storey, Österblad, Cameron, Engan, Fiala, Lutz, Parkhomenko, Gokhman, Dekoninck, Cooleman & Mees, 2025
References
- Zijp Jan-Piet, Blommers Leo H. M. 2002 Survival mode between the yearly reproduction periods, and reproductive biology of Scambus pomorum (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae), a parasitoid of the Apple Blossom Weevil Anthonomus pomorum (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Entomologia Generalis 26 1 29 46 10.1127/entom.gen/26/2002/29
- Hancock G. L. R. 1925 Notes on the hibernation of Ichneumonidae and on some parasites of Tortrix viridana L. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 61 23 28
- Fitton M. G., Shaw Mark, Gauld I. 1988 Pimpline Ichneumon - flies: Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae (Pimplinae) The Royal Entomological Society London 110 0 901546 72 0
- Shaw Mark 2006 Notes on British Pimplinae and Poemeniinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), with additions to the British list British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 19 4 217 238 https://biostor.org/reference/242187
- Verheyde Fons, Quicke Donald L. J. 2022 Review of adult diapause in ichneumonid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Journal of Hymenoptera Research 91 185 208 10.3897/jhr.91.83618