Parania geniculata (Holmgren, 1857)

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 : 30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13272081

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D33240-8602-CF11-FF69-8C916A0AFC9F

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scientific name

Parania geniculata (Holmgren, 1857)
status

 

Parania geniculata (Holmgren, 1857) View in CoL (Fig. 6 A–B)

One of the rarer findings of this study. Parania spp. have a unique wing venation: the brachial cell and the 2 nd discal cell are separated by a small portion of the vein 1m-cu ( PÉNIGOT 2021, in press; see also Fig. 6 B).

Overall the species is small, with a fore wing length of 4 mm. With the males the frontal part of the head and the clypeus is completely yellow. Its mesosoma and the apical tergites are predominantly black (possibly with yellow markings on the thorax). Its metasoma is red brown (Fig. 6 A). Our finding took place in a small field where flower mixtures had been sown. Some of the known hosts are rare, but Gypsonoma aceriana (Duponchel, 1843) ( Lepidoptera : Tortricidae ) seems to be the most plausible candidate here ( YU et al., 2012).

First report of the species and the genus for Belgium, unconfirmed in the Netherlands.

MATERIAL EXAMINED:

BELGIUM: • 1 ♂; Beernem , Beverhoutsveld (WVL); 51°10’41”N 3°16’52”E; 6/vii/2020; A. De Ketelaere leg.; coll. ADK; field observation; W. Pénigot det. (ObsID: 198933657); Fig. 6A–B GoogleMaps .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

Genus

Parania

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