Neoxorides nitens (Gravenhorst, 1829)

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 : 113

Neoxorides nitens (Gravenhorst, 1829)

Much like Podoschistus spp. (see below), Neoxorides spp. have temples with ridges behind the eyes. However, their tarsal claws do not have a subapical tooth. Their scutellum and metascutellum are black ( OEHLKE, 1965; VARGA, 2015).

Neoxorides nitens has a clearly punctuated mesopleuron, but between the punctures the surface is more or less shiny. Its pronotal collar is distinctly raised. The males have white to yellow orbits, but the face is black centrally. The females have brownish palps ( OEHLKE, 1965; VARGA, 2015). Hosts are Coleoptera ; cerambycids and possibly buprestids connected to oak (BOPARAI et al., 2019; JOHANSSON & KLOPFSTEIN, 2020).

First report for the Netherlands; confirmed in Belgium.

MATERIAL EXAMINED:

BELGIUM: • 1 ♂; Zillebeke , Zandvoordebos (WVL); 50°49’25”N 2°57’59”E; 12/v/2019; F. Verheyde leg.; coll. FV; field observation; W. Pénigot & F. Verheyde det. (ObsID: 172129366) . • 1 ♂; Oud-Turnhout , Landschap De Liereman (AN); 51°19’31”N 5°01’49”E; 20/v/2020; N. Van Loco leg.; field observation on Betula sp. ; F. Verheyde det. (ObsID: 191946288) .

THE NETHERLANDS: • 1 ♂; Tilburg , Leijbos (NB); 51°32’34”N 5°00’51”E; 23/iv/2020; IWG KNNV Tilburg leg.; coll . PH; malaise trap (16-23); P. Hoekstra & A. Humala det. (ObsID: 203584805) .