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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.