Campoplex capitator Aubert, 1960

Giovanni, Filippo Di, Scaramozzino, Pier Luigi, Loni, Augusto & Lucchi, Andrea, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Campoplex difformis group (Ichneumonidae, Campopleginae), with particular reference to species of economic importance, European Journal of Taxonomy 740, pp. 1-35 : 15-17

Campoplex capitator Aubert, 1960

Figs 7A , 9A , 10A , 12A , 14A, 15

Campoplex capitator Aubert, 1960: 64 .

Material examined

Lectotype designated here

FRANCE • 1 ♀; “TYPE // CAMPOPLEX ♀; (= OMORGUS ); CAPITATOR Aub. // J.F.AUBERT; 24.8.1958; COSPRONS (P.O.) // Comparées; toutes les; esp. de Thomson // Visage + court; +transverse; que chez difformis ; et troch. I. clairs; Tergite II + long.; II-III et tarière; + longs que chez fusciplica; (...) + long que chez; molesta; + const; que chez Stenogaster ; (non décrit?).; ssp. de BILOBA ?; Mais ant. + grêles; Area sup. media; non creusée; Exte des tibias; obscuries et; mandib. jaunes // Fusciplica type; tarière tergites; II-III + courts; tibias extrémit; noire. // f. ABBREVIATUS Brisch.; MAJOR Szepl. [crossed out]; OVATUS Brisch. // Algericus; ou fusciplica? [all crossed out] // Syntype 1/3 (3); Campoplex ; capitator ; Aubert, 1960 g; labelled by S. Klopfstein 2009”.

Additional material examined

ITALY •> 100 ♀♀; DISAAA .

Description

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Body length 5.0– 6.5 mm; fore wing length 3.5–4.5 mm.

HEAD. Face about 0.60–0.70 × as high as wide. Malar space 0.5–0.6 × width of mandibular base. Gena 0.8 × as long as eye (maximum width, seen laterally); temple about 0.6 × as long as eye (seen dorsally), weakly narrowed behind eye, imaginary lines connecting outer side of eye and temple intersect at the level of scutellum. OOD 0.55 × distance between lateral ocelli. Mandibular teeth subequal. Clypeus 0.5 × as high as wide, not produced in profile medially, matt and coriaceous, its apical margin sharp and gently rounded. Face and frons granulate and matt. Vertex and temples coriaceous and subpolished. Flagellum in examined specimens with 27–30 (usually 28–29) segments, flagellomeres in apical quarter about 0.9–1.0 × as long as wide.

MESOSOMA. Pronotum medio-ventrally with longitudinal striae, dorsally coriaceous. Epomia indistinct. Mesoscutum and scutellum granulate and matt, scutellum without lateral carinae. Mesopleuron coriaceous and matt, with shallow and scattered punctures, especially on antero-ventral half; speculum smooth, anteriorly with fine longitudinal striae. Epicnemial carina only slightly sinuate subventrally, ventrally slightly raised, in middle without notch and not produced into lobes. Metapleuron coriaceous and matt. Fore wing with areolet small and petiolate, 2m-cu beyond its middle; 1cu-a opposite M&RS. Hind wing with proximal abscissa of CU 3 × as long as cu-a, distal abscissa of CU unpigmented. Hind femur 4.5 × as long as its maximum width, the longer inner tibial spur about 0.5–0.6 × as long as hind basitarsus. Propodeum with area basalis rectangular, about 0.4 × as wide as area superomedia; area superomedia large, about 1.4 × as wide as long, coriaceous and matt, not depressed, posteriorly open (just a weak hint of carina separating it from area petiolaris). Area petiolaris very slightly depressed and with irregular transverse striae. Rim of propodeal spiracle and carina connecting propodeal spiracle to pleural carina thickened.

METASOMA. Postpetiole coriaceous. Metasomal tergite II 1.3 × as long as apically wide. Ovipositor ratio 1.55–1.65.

COLOUR. Black. Palps and tegulae yellowish-white. Mandibles (except black base and reddish teeth) and pedicel apically yellow. Scape and flagellum yellowish-brown, flagellum lighter distally. Pterostigma yellowish-brown. All coxae black, fore coxa yellow marked distally, all tibial spurs yellowish-white; fore and mid trochanters and trochantelli yellowish-red, fore and mid femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowishred. Hind trochanter and trochantellus brownish, hind femur red, hind tibia and tarsus yellowish-red, tibia with very small light spot at base, very slightly brownish sub-basally and apically. Metasoma and ovipositor sheath black.

Notes

The shape of the area superomedia is rather variable. Specimens collected and/or reared from Lobesia botrana in Italy showed a certain degree of variation, in particular in the length of the lateral margins of the area superomedia (i.e., carina running from costula to base of area petiolaris).

Figures

Fig. 7. Temples behind eye, dorsal view. A. Campoplex capitator Aubert, 1960, lectotype (MZL). B. C. difformis (Gmelin, 1790) (ZSM). C. C. dubitator Horstmann, 1985 (ZSM). D. C. formosanae Horstmann, 2012 (NMS). E. C. unicingulatus (Schmiedeknecht, 1909) (ZSM). F. C. corsicator Aubert, 1960, lectotype (MZL).

Fig. 9. Flagellum, apical quarter.A. Campoplex capitatorAubert, 1960, lectotype (MZL).B. C. difformis (Gmelin, 1790) (ZSM). C. C. dubitator Horstmann, 1985 (ZSM). D. C. formosanae Horstmann, 2012 (NMS). E. C. unicingulatus (Schmiedeknecht, 1909) (ZSM). F. C. corsicator Aubert, 1960, lectotype (MZL).

Fig. 10. Propodeum and propodeal carinae, dorsal view. A. Campoplex capitator Aubert, 1960, lectotype (MZL). B. C. difformis (Gmelin, 1790) (ZSM). C. C. dubitator Horstmann, 1985 (ZSM). D. C. formosanae Horstmann, 2012 (ZSM). E. C. unicingulatus (Schmiedeknecht, 1909) (ZSM). F. C. corsicator Aubert, 1960, lectotype (MZL).

Fig. 12 (opposite page). Cocoons of species belonging to Campoplex difformis species group. A. Campoplex capitator Aubert, 1960,♀ (DISAAA) from Italy, Tuscany, Pisa, San Rossore, ex Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) on Daphne gnidium L. B. C. dubitator Horstmann, 1985, ♀ (ZSM) from Netherlands, West Frisian, Venhuizen, ex Archips podana (Scopoli, 1763) on apple, de Jong leg., K. Horstmann det. C. C. formosanae Horstmann, 2012, ♂, paratypus (ZSM), from Germany, Sipplingen-Suessenmuehle, North Lake of Constanz, ex Enarmonia formosana (Scopoli, 1763), K. Horstmann det. D. C. formosanae Horstmann, 2012, ♂ (NMS), from UK, Cumbria, Beelham, ex Acleris rhombana (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) on Prunus L. / Crataegus Tourn ex. L., M.R. Shaw leg., K. Horstmann det. E. C.? formosanae, ♀ (NMS) from Hungary, Veszprém Devecseri Széki, ex undet. Microlepidoptera larva under Ulmus L. bark, M.R. Shaw leg., K. Horstmann det. F. C. unicingulatus (Schmiedeknecht, 1909), ♀ (NMS), from UK, Pamber Forest, Hampshire, ex?Epinotia immundana (Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1839) on Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn., M.R. Shaw leg., K. Horstmann det.