Bathyplectes tibiator (Gravenhorst, 1820)

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 : 35

Bathyplectes tibiator (Gravenhorst, 1820)

= syn. B. corvinus (Thomson, 1887) , synonymized by HORSTMANN (1986: 143)

This species of Bathyplectes is a lot bigger in comparison to the previously mentioned B. curculionis . The females have more than 23 antennal segments, which is rare within the genus. Otherwise it has a fine punctuation (next to granulation) on its frons, its mesoscutum and its mesopleuron. This distinguishes it from B. incisus (HORSTMANN, 1974, 1986).

First report for the Netherlands; unconfirmed in Belgium.

MATERIAL EXAMINED:

THE NETHERLANDS: • 1 ♀; Twijzel (FR); 53°14’53”N 6°04’56”E; 28/v/2012; Landschapsbeheer Friesland leg.; coll. HM; malaise trap 215 (24–28); H. Meijer det.