Exochus aenigmatosus Tolkanitz, 1999

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 : 174-175

Exochus aenigmatosus Tolkanitz, 1999

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Material examined. Holotype: male, UKRAINE, Kherson Region: Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Solenoozernyi area , on oak, 1.vi.1976, leg. V. Tolkanitz (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus aenigmatosus is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, black with apical triangular projection yellow; malar space partly and frons along eye orbits yellow (except interruption opposite to apical ocellus); clypeus with apical margin straight; occipital carina present dorsally; mesosoma black with scutellum and postscutellum yellow apically; propodeum with area superomedia narrower than area dentipara; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; metasoma red except tergite 1 basally, 5 apically and 6–7 entirely black; third laterotergite more-or-less rounded from the proximal end; legs generally orange, except all trochanters entirely and coxae ventrally fuscous; hind tibia with a weakly defined subbasal ring.

Distribution. Currently known from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Ukraine ( Tolkanitz 2007a).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Exochus aenigmatosus Tolkanitz, 1999, holotype male: a) type label; b) lateral view of habitus; c) third laterotergite; d) frontal view of head; e) dorsal view of propodeum.