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Exochus obscurus Tolkanitz 1999

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Description

Exochus obscurus Tolkanitz, 1999

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Material examined. Holotype: female, HUNGARY: Magyarszombatfa, 21.vi.1994, leg. A. Kotenko (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus obscurus is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, black, with narrow yellow apical line; frons black; yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight; occipital carina absent dorsally; meso- and metasoma black; propodeum with area superomedia closed apically, costulae distinct; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite straight from the proximal end, wedge-shaped; legs generally orange except coxae, trochanters and trochantelli black, fore and mid femora largely and hind femora ventrally brown, hind tibia moreor-less uniformly orange, weakly lighter basally.

Distribution. Currently known only from Hungary (Tolkanitz 2007a).

Remarks. According to Tolkanitz (2007a) this species has more-or-less rounded from the proximal end third laterotergite. After examination of the holotype it was found that it is straight from the proximal end, wedgeshaped.

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 186-187, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4943091

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SIZK
Event date
1994-06-21
Verbatim event date
1994-06-21
Scientific name authorship
Tolkanitz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Exochus
Species
obscurus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Exochus obscurus Tolkanitz, 1999 sec. Varga, 2021

References

  • Tolkanitz, V. I. (1999) New and little-known Palaearctic species of the genus Exochus (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Metopiinae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 78 (2), 191 - 201. [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.