Ophion rufoniger Kohl, 1905

Johansson, Niklas, Ameri, Ali, Riedel, Matthias, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, 2021, Contribution to the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran with the description of 16 new species and an illustrated key to the Eremotylus of the Western Palaearctic, Zootaxa 5023 (2), pp. 151-206 : 184

Ophion rufoniger Kohl, 1905

Figs 16A‒B, F

Ophion rufoniger Kohl, 1905: 223 . Lectotype ♀ female from Azerbaijan in NHMW, examined.

Material examined: IRAN: 1♀, Esfan dagheh-Djirouft, 20 Apr. 1971, Saf Zair leg. ( HMIM) .

Remarks: Ophion rufoniger ( Figs 16A‒B, F ) was described from Goygol in Northwestern Azerbaijan ( Kohl, 1905). It is a very rarely recorded species also known from Armenia and Georgia. The species is quite easily determined based on the buccate head and the dark reddish brown body with mainly black metasoma and legs. The depicted female specimen is from Georgia and housed in OÖLM.

Figures

FIGURE 16. A) Ophion rufoniger Kohl, ♀, mesosoma and head, lateral view; B) Ophion rufoniger, head of ♀, lateral view; C) Ophion semipullatus Kokujev, mesosoma and head of ♀, lateral view; D) Ophion semipullatus, head of ♀, lateral view; E) Ophion semipullatus, head of ♀, anterior view; F) Ophion rufoniger, head of ♀, anterior view. Photos: Niklas Johansson.