Hyposoter seniculus ( Gravenhorst, 1829 )

Galsworthy, Anthony, Shaw, Mark R. & Haraldseide, Håkon, 2023, A key to European species of Hyposoter Förster, 1869 (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae) with descriptions of 18 new species, and notes on all included species, Zootaxa 5290 (1), pp. 1-73 : 67

Hyposoter seniculus ( Gravenhorst, 1829)

Campoplex seniculus Gravenhorst, 1829 : holotype ♀ in UWCP, examined by Horstmann syn. Anilastus melaleucus Schmiedeknecht,1909 : Hedwig, 1940

syn. Anilasta berberatae Habermehl, 1922 syn. n.: synonymy proposed in Horstmann’s notes after examination of type material.

Horstmann left full notes on the holotype. According to these, the central section of the hind tibia is bright yellow, with the base and apex abruptly dark. The species most likely to be confused with it would be H. albonotatus (with which Horstmann had earlier confused it), but the latter has the fore and mid coxae yellow, whereas they are dark in seniculus .

The holotype is labelled ‘ Silesia’ , but it is not clear whether the locality is in modern Germany or Poland. There are records in the literature of uncertain reliability from Germany, Austria, Romania, the Netherlands and France.