Mesochorus rufoniger Brischke, 1880

Riedel, Matthias & Varga, Oleksandr, 2022, A checklist of the subfamily Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians, Zootaxa 5100 (2), pp. 224-248 : 241

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:462D5161-912D-4B5C-9F40-20203E5CFDCD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6313323

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C10587F7-FFFA-D237-FF51-F964B6DD33ED

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scientific name

Mesochorus rufoniger Brischke, 1880
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Mesochorus rufoniger Brischke, 1880 View in CoL ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 32–35 )

Material examined. UKRAINE: Ivano-Frankivsk Region: 1 ♂, Zhbyr , 8 km SW of Bogorodchany, 48.777922 N, 24.456837 E, 405 m, mixed forest, sweeping, 4.v.2013, leg. O. Varga ( SIZK) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Europe; first record for Ukraine.

Taxonomical remark. A species with blackish face and yellowish inner orbits. It has lateral ocellus c. 1.3 × larger than its distance to eye; pronotum, mesoscutum except brown fronto-median spot and scutellum reddish; mesopleuron blackish; pterostigma hyaline (not dark as stated in Schwenke 1999: 93). This species runs to M. castellanus Schwenke, 1999 in his key for the declinans -group, but differs by the larger ocelli, blackish face and reddish mesoscutum.

SIZK

Schmaulhausen Institute of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

Genus

Mesochorus

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