Exochus vexator Tolkanitz, 1993

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 : 192-193

Exochus vexator Tolkanitz, 1993

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Material examined. Holotype: female, MOLDOVA: Bender, 2.vii.1978, leg. A. Kotenko (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus vexator is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, yellow in apical half; frons black; yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight, yellow laterally; occipital carina absent dorsally; meso- and metasoma black except upper hind corner of pronotum, subtegular ridge, scutellum and postscutellum yellow; propodeum with area superomedia closed apically, wider than area dentipara, costulae distinct; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite straight from the proximal end, wedge-shaped; legs generally yellowish-orange: hind coxae fuscous apically, hind tibiae fuscous basally and apically, yellowish centrally.

Distribution. Currently known from Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Hungary, Moldova, Russia (Far East), Ukraine ( Tolkanitz 2007a).

Figures

FIGURE 17. Exochus vexator Tolkanitz, 1993, holotype female: a) lateral view of habitus; b) type label; c) third laterotergite; d) frontal view of head; e) dorsal view of propodeum.