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Exeristes roborator

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Exeristes roborator (Fabricius, 1793) (figs 1; 2, 1, 10; 3, 4)

M a t e r i a l. Carpathians. Romania: Constanţa Country: Agigea, 12.08.1964, 2 Ơ, 3 ♀; idem, 13.08.1964, 1 Ơ, 4 ♀; idem, 20.08.1964, 2 ♀; idem, 2.06.1968, ♀; Teleorman Country: Merisani, 10.08.1958, ♀; Vaslui Country: Husi, 17.06.1980, ♀; Maramures Country: Cluj, 25.07.1979, ex Larinus sp., 2 Ơ; idem, ex Larinus sp., 21.07.1989, 1 ♀; idem, ex Larinus sp., 18.07.1990, 1 Ơ, 2 ♀; idem, 25.07.1990, 4 Ơ, 2 ♀; Mehedinti Country: Planisevita, 15.05.1967, 1 ♀; Iasi Country: Breazu, 28.09.1961, 2 ♀; idem, 2.08.2000, 1 ♀; idem, 17.08.2000, 1 Ơ; Dumesti, 22.08.1959, 1 Ơ; idem, 24.08.1959, 1 Ơ, 2 ♀; idem, 5.09.1959, 1 ♀; Neamt Country: Ruginești, 9.07.1967, 1 Ơ; Suceava Country: Poiana Stampei, 19.08.1971, 1 ♀; idem, 17.08.1954, 1 ♀; Tulcea Country: Babadag, 07.1968, 1 Ơ; Murighiol, 8.09.1982, 3 Ơ; idem, 13.09.1983, 1 Ơ (Pisica). Ukraine: Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Bogorodchany District: Mochary, 300–350 m, mixed forest, 5 km NE of Bogorodchany, sweeping, 5.09.2011, 1 ♀; idem, 7.09.2011, 1 ♀ (Varga); Gorgany, Stara Guta, 07.2004, 1 ♀; Ivano-Frankivsk, Vovchynets, 21.05.2006, 1 ♀ (Sirenko).

D i a g n o s i s. The female is characterized by the hind coxae and all trochanters red; fore tarsal claws enlarged basally (into lobes); ovipositor tip subapically tuberculated (fig. 2, 1); metasomal tergites strongly transverse; and hind tarsus with fifth tarsomere about 1.0– 1.1 times longer than second tarsomere (as on fig. 3, 6). The male generally resembles female and has black coxa, red trochanter, and apically tuberculated clypeus (fig. 3, 4).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions (Yu et al., 2012).

Remarks. Some specimens in Pisica’s collection were misidentified as “ Exeristes arundinis ” and “ Gregopimpla bernuthii (Hartig, 1838) ”. The collection also contains numerous specimens without locality labels reared from Rhyacionia buoliana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775).

Notes

Published as part of Varga, O., 2017, A Review Of The Genus Exeristes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) From Carpathians, With An Illustrated Key To Western Palearctic Species, pp. 9-14 in Vestnik Zoologii 51 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2017-0002, http://zenodo.org/record/6404118

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  • Yu, D. S., van Achterberg, K., Horstmann, K. 2012. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. Avaliable from http: // www. taxapad. com /