Aphanistes bellicosus (Wesmael, 1849)

Verheyde, Fons, Hoekstra, Paul, Libert, Pierre-Nicolas, Meijer, Hilco, Ketelaere, Augustijn De, Vandaudenard, Thibaud, Belgers, Dick & Brosens, Edwin, 1880, Two hundred and five ichneumonid wasps reported for the first time in Belgium and the Netherlands (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 122, pp. 1-142 : 26

Aphanistes bellicosus (Wesmael, 1849)

Aphanistes can be recognised by the presence of the distal abscissa in the hind wing CU, frons below anterior ocellus with a median vertical lamella and the hind tarsal claws pectinate right to the apex (GAULD & MITCHELL, 1977).

Typical for A. bellicosus is the completely yellow-orange scapus, while the remaining flagellomeres are mainly black, especially apically ( PÉNIGOT 2021, in press).

First report for the Netherlands; confirmed in Belgium.

MATERIAL EXAMINED:

BELGIUM: • 1 ♀; Somal (NA); 18/iv/2007; P-N. Libert leg.; coll. PNL; field observation; A. Nuzhna det.

THE NETHERLANDS: • 1 ♀; Rechteren , Rechterensche Veld (OR); 52°29’16”N 6°18’16”E; 27/vii/2019; G. Beersma leg.; field observation; W. Pénigot det. (ObsID: 177056989) .