Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)
Author
Klopfstein, Seraina
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-05-22
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Diplazon laetatorius
(
Fabricius 1781,
Ichneumon
)
Ichneumon dichrous
Schrank 1781
Anomalon attractus
Say 1835
Bassus albovarius
Wollaston 1858
Bassus cinctipes
Holmgren 1868
Bassus sycophanta
Cresson 1868
Bassus tripicticrus
Walsh 1873
Scolobates varipes
Smith 1878
Bassus venustulus
Saussure 1892
Bassus balearicus
Kriechbaumer 1894
Bassus terminalis
Davis 1895
Bassus generosus
Cameron
1898
Bassus senegalensis
Ferrière 1925
(in
Vayssière & Mimeur 1925
)
Bassus ikiti
Cheesman 1936
Diagnosis.
(No males found in Europe). Fore wing length
3.5–6 mm
. Antenna in females with 16–17 flagellomeres. Face with punctures clearly distinct from the background sculpture. Mesopleuron smooth and polished with weak to strong punctures on lower half, upper half largely smooth but with punctures along anterior margin. Propodeum with a full set of carinae enclosing basal, lateral and petiolar areas. Tergite 1 0.9–1.1, tergite 2 0.55–0.7 times as long as wide; tergites 2 and 3 with large, distinct punctures on a rugose or on tergite 3 rather smooth and polished background, punctures with distinct margins. Transverse impressions deep on tergites 1 to 4. Metasoma dorsoventrally depressed.
Colouration of females.
Antenna orange, brown dorsally. Head and mesosoma black, face with yellow along inner orbits, usually without yellow central face patch, yellow on clypeus and mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, shoulder mark, upper mesepimeron; scutellum largely yellow. Legs including coxae orange; hind tibia tricolored, with a dark base, then white band, then black band and a broad, orange apex, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma orange at least on tergites 2 and 3, often also hind margin of tergite 1 and parts of tergite 4 orange.
Material examined.
Holotype
of
Bassus cinctipes
Holmgren
:
South Africa
.
1♀
, at
NRM
.
New for
Kazakhstan
:
12 km
South from Urda village, bound between Khaki saline and Ryn-Kum, leg. Karalius, Miatleuski,
1.–3.VI.2001
. 1♀, at MR
.
Argentina
(20),
Finland
(1),
France
(2),
Germany
(2),
Hungary
(>500),
Iceland
(1),
Iran
(4),
Kazakhstan
(1),
Norway
(1),
Portugal
(1),
Russia
(1),
Spain
(Canary Islands: 1),
Sweden
(>500),
Switzerland
(>300),
Tadzhikistan
(1),
Turkey
(1),
Ukraine
(1),
United Kingdom
(60),
USA
(4),
Zambia
(1).
Distribution.
Worldwide.
Figures.
Mesoscutum (
Fig. 12A
), habitus (
Fig. 29
A).
Notes.
This species has a cosmopolitan distribution and reproduces parthenogenetically in most of its range. Males are to date only known from North
America
and
India
.