Mesochorus (Mesochorus) perforatus Schwenke 2002
Authors/Creators
- 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) perforatus Schwenke, 2002 (Fig. 41)
Material examined. UKRAINE: Ivano-Frankivsk Region: 1 ♀, Chornogora, Nesamovyte, 25 km SW of Vorokhta, 48.130496 N, 24.538212 E, 1700–1750 m, subalpine zone, sweeping, 24.viii.2012, leg. O. Varga (SIZK).
Distribution. Only known from Sweden; first record for Ukraine.
Taxonomical remark. This species is incompletely known, we give a short description here.
Female. Flagellum with 39 flagellomeres, slender; 1 st flagellomere 7.0 × longer than wide and 0.77 × as long as eye; 2 nd flagellomere 5.0 × longer than wide. Temple slightly narrowed behind eye, dorsally 0.8 × as long as eye. Distance between lateral ocellus and eye 1.4 × ocellar diameter. Lower mandibular tooth slightly larger and longer than upper tooth. Malar space 0.4 × as long as width of mandibular base. Mesopleuron with dense punctures ventrally. Area superomedia 2.5 × longer than wide. Area petiolaris slightly longer than wide. Hind femur 5.1 × longer than wide. Hind claw with long basal teeth. Areolet very oblique, vein 2m-cu in the middle. 1 st tergite 3.2 × longer than wide, postpetiolus smooth. 2 nd tergite 1.15 × longer than wide. Thyridium small, oval. Ovipositor sheath 6.0 × longer than wide and 0.8 × as long as hind metatarsus, narrowed in apically 0.3.
Color: Black. Face reddish-brown; clypeus, mandible, malar space and inner orbit yellow-red, outer orbit reddish. Mesosoma black; mesoscutum with central H-shaped red spot; mesopleuron diffusely reddish in dorsal third. Metasoma with 2 nd tergite black, reddish in apical 0.2; 3 rd tergite reddish centrally, brown laterally; following tergites brown with yellow apical margins (vespoid pattern). Legs reddish; hind tibia not distinctly darkened apically. Pterostigma hyaline.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SIZK
- Event date
- 2012-08-24
- Verbatim event date
- 2012-08-24
- Scientific name authorship
- Schwenke
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Mesochorus
- Species
- perforatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesochorus (Mesochorus) perforatus Schwenke, 2002 sec. Riedel & Varga, 2022
References
- Schwenke, W. (2002) Neue europaische Mesochorinae-Arten (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Mesochorinae). Entomofauna, 23, 85 - 92.