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Mesochorus (Mesochorus) dessauensis Schwenke 1999

  • 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 (Mesochorus) dessauensis Schwenke, 1999 (Fig. 16)

Material examined. UKRAINE: Transcarpathian Region: 1 ♀, Svydovets, 2–3 km NW of Kvasy, 48.090889°N, 24.155835°E, 850–900 m, beech forest, Malaise trap 2, 7.v–5.vi.2014, leg. O. Varga (SIZK).

Distribution. Known from Germany, first record for Ukraine.

Taxonomical remark. A small species (body length 3.5–4.5 mm) with very large ocelli (distance between lateral ocellus and eye 0.5 × ocellar diameter) and very short and strongly narrowed temples; face wider than frons, with slightly convergent sides ventrally; and mesopleuron almost smooth, not distinctly punctate. Face reddish, inner orbits cream-yellow; mesosoma mainly brownish, mesoscutum with 4 yellowish longitudinal stripes; hind coxa with brownish spot dorsally; pterostigma brownish.

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 page 234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6145438

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SIZK
Event date
2014-05-07
Verbatim event date
2014-05-07/06-05
Scientific name authorship
Schwenke
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Mesochorus
Species
dessauensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mesochorus (Mesochorus) dessauensis Schwenke, 1999 sec. Riedel & Varga, 2022

References

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