Exochus certus Tolkanitz, 2003

Varga, Oleksandr, 2021, Types of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae Metopiinae) deposited at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Zootaxa 4985 (2), pp. 173-193 : 179-180

Exochus certus Tolkanitz, 2003

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Material examined. Holotype: male, RUSSIA, Kuril Islands : Kunashir Island, Alekhino, 16.viii.1988, leg. A. Kotenko (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus certus is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, face in upper half, clypeus laterally and malar space partly yellow; frons black; yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight; occipital carina absent dorsally; meso- and metasoma black; propodeum with area superomedia partly opened, costulae distinct, area dentipara only partly pubescent; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite more-or-less rounded from the proximal end; legs: coxae black basally, yellow apically, hind trochanters black; fore and mid tibiae fuscous basally and apically, whitish centrally.

Distribution. Currently known only from the Kunashir Island of Russia ( Tolkanitz 2007a).

Remarks. According to Yu et al. (2016) the holotype of this species is deposited at the Zoological Institute of RAS, but actually it is in Kyiv, which is metioned in Zerova et al. (2006).

Figures

FIGURE 6. Exochus certus Tolkanitz, 2003, holotype male: a) lateral view of habitus; b) type label; c) third laterotergite; d) frontal view of head; e) dorsal view of propodeum.