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Mesochorus (Plectochorus) iwatensis

  • 1. Blumenlage 22 C, D- 29683 Bad Fallingbostel, Germany
  • 2. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo 15, Kyiv 01030, Ukraine

Description

Mesochorus (Plectochorus) iwatensis (Uchida, 1928) (Fig. 3)

Material examined. UKRAINE: Transcarpathian Region: 1 ♀, Mala Ugolka, beech forest, 500–1000 m, sweeping, 30.vii.1995, leg. A. Kotenko (SIZK).

Distribution. Palaearctic and Oriental regions; first record for Ukraine.

Taxonomical remark. The only known Western Palaearctic species of this subgenus. It is characterized by its elongate propodeum and the narrow and elongate metasoma, which is strongly compressed from 3 rd tergite on; the short and tongue-shaped ovipositor sheath, 2.9 × longer than wide (as in the sylvarum -group).

curvulus -group sensu Schwenke (1999: 35–42)

Notes

Published as part of Riedel, Matthias & Varga, Oleksandr, 2022, A checklist of the subfamily Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians, pp. 224-248 in Zootaxa 5100 (2) on pages 227-228, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6145438

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SIZK
Event date
1995-07-30
Verbatim event date
1995-07-30
Scientific name authorship
Uchida
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Mesochorus
Species
iwatensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mesochorus (Plectochorus) iwatensis (Uchida, 1928) sec. Riedel & Varga, 2022

References

  • Schwenke, W. (1999) Revision der europaischen Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Ichneumonidae). Spixiana Supplement, 26, 1 - 124.