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Mesochorus (Mesochorus) perforatus Schwenke 2002

  • 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.

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 244-245, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6145438

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Additional details

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.