Lathrolestes buccinator ( Holmgren, 1857 )

Reshchikov, Alexey, 2015, Review of North European species of the genus Lathrolestes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with description of one new species from Öland (Sweden), Zootaxa 4033 (1), pp. 1-47 : 15-16

Lathrolestes buccinator ( Holmgren, 1857)

Figs. 7 , 13 , 20 , 38, 52–56.

Perilissus buccinator Holmgren, 1857: 122 . Holotype ♀, NHRS [examined, NHRS-HEVA000003819]. Type locality: Sweden (Småland).

Perilissus vollenhoveni Gribodo, 1880: 7 . Holotype ♂, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa, Italy [not examined]. Type locality: Italy (Nicotera, Calabria).

Material. 1♂, SWEDEN, Södermanland, Tyresö kommun, Åva, Spirudden, mixed coastal oak forest. N59°10.313´E18°22.197´(=Trap ID 1), 17.vi–02.vii.2003 (=coll. event ID 79), leg. SMTP, SMTP; 1♂, SWEDEN, Småland, Nybro kommun, Bäckebo, Grytsjöns naturreservat Old moisty haymaking meadow in forest edge, N6311678 E1517066 (=TrapID 1001), 18.v–15.vi.2006 (=coll. event ID 1728), leg. SMTP, NHRS.

Diagnosis. This species differs from other species of the genus by the following character states: 1) face and clypeus separated by impression, 2) face in female black, 3) head and mesopleuron matt, coarsely, densely and rather evenly punctate, 4) occipital carina complete, 5) tegulae yellow, 6) second recurrent vein intercepting areolet behind its middle, 7) propodeum with carinae complete, 8) first metasomal tergite twice as long as wide, large, very swollen.

Distribution. Afganistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia (Buryatia, Kamchatska Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Krasnodarsk Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Leningrad, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, Smolensk), Slovenia, Spain, Sweden (Södermanland, Småland), Switzerland, Ukraine, UK.

Figures

FIGURES 3 – 8. Variety of colouration and body size in the genus Lathrolestes; 3, L. fumipennis Reshchikov, 2012; 4, L. tripunctor (Thunberg, 1824); 5, L. laevipleuris Reshchikov, 2013; 6, L. nornae Reshchikov, 2013; 7, L. buccinator (Holmgren, 1857); 8, L. tolstoyi Reshchikov, 2012.

FIGURES 13 – 14. Head of Lathrolestes. 13, anterior view, L. buccinator; 14, posterior view, L. orbitalis.

FIGURES 18–27. Claws. 18, L. bipunctatus; 19, L. clypeatus; 20, L.buccinator; 21, L. ensator; 22, L. luteolator; 23, L. nornae; 24, L. oelandinus; 25, L. erythrocephalus; 26, L. orbitalis; 27, L. kozlovi.