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Exochus antennalis Tolkanitz 1992

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Exochus antennalis Tolkanitz, 1992

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Material examined. Holotype: female, RUSSIA, Zabaykalsky Krai [Chita Region]: Nizhniy Tsasuchey, 25.vii.1990, leg. A. Kotenko (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus antennalis is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen; malar space, clypeus and face yellow; frons along eye orbits yellow, not reaching the level of the apical ocellus; yellow mark opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight; occipital carina present dorsally; mesosoma black except upper hind corner of pronotum, scutellum and postscutellum apically yellow; propodeum with area superomedia closed apically, costulae absent, area dentipara pubescent only along margins; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite more-orless rounded from the proximal end; legs generally reddish except coxae and trochanters fuscous (except fore coxae apically); hind tibia reddish, with a weakly defined subbasal yellowish ring, narrowly fuscous basally and apically.

Distribution. Currently known from Russia (Zabaykalsky Krai) and Ukraine (Odesa Region) (Tolkanitz 2007a).

Remarks. According to the key of Tolkanitz (2007a) this species has yellowish-orange, weakly darkened apically hind tibia. After examination of the holotype it was found that hind tibia are orange, with a weakly defined subbasal yellowish ring, but narrowly fuscous apically AND basally.

Notes

Published as part of Varga, Oleksandr, 2021, Types of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae Metopiinae) deposited at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, pp. 173-193 in Zootaxa 4985 (2) on pages 175-176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4943091

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SIZK
Event date
1990-07-25
Verbatim event date
1990-07-25
Scientific name authorship
Tolkanitz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Exochus
Species
antennalis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Exochus antennalis Tolkanitz, 1992 sec. Varga, 2021

References

  • Tolkanitz, V. I. (1992) Parasitic wasps of the subfamily Metopiinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) of Transbaikalia. Insects of Daurya in Adjacent Territories. Central Scientific Research Laboratory of Hunting and Forestry. Moscow, 1, 86 - 93. [in Russian]
  • Tolkanitz, V. I. (2007 a) Ichneumon flies of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) of the fauna of Palaearctic region. Russian Entomological Journal, 16 (3), 339 - 358.