Cleonymus obscurus Walker, 1837

Haas, Michael, Baur, Hannes, Schweizer, Tanja, Monje, Juan Carlos, Moser, Marina, Bigalk, Sonia & Krogmann, Lars, 2021, Tiny wasps, huge diversity - A review of German Pteromalidae with new generic and species records (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 77092-77092 : 77092

Cleonymus obscurus Walker, 1837

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_40088 ; recordedBy: B. Rulik; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538152 ; Taxon: scientificName: Cleonymus obscurus Walker , 1837; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Rheinland-Pfalz; locality: Kreis Ahrweiler , Niederzissen Bausenberg , Trockenrasen, MF 5, ZFMK-MAL-0000719 ; verbatimElevation: 321 m; decimalLatitude: 7.2220; decimalLongitude: 50.4684; Identification: identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 23/ 8 - 6/9/2012; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_003023; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_40102 ; recordedBy: B. Rulik; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538133 ; Taxon: scientificName: Cleonymus obscurus Walker , 1837; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Rheinland-Pfalz; locality: Kreis Ahrweiler , Niederzissen , Bausenberg , Trockenrasen, MF 5, ZFMK-MAL-0000567 ; verbatimElevation: 321 m; decimalLatitude: 7.2220; decimalLongitude: 50.4684; Identification: identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 9/ 8 - 23/8/2012; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_003037; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_40117 ; recordedBy: B. Rulik; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538131 ; Taxon: scientificName: Cleonymus obscurus Walker , 1837; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Rheinland-Pfalz; locality: Kreis Ahrweiler , Bausenberg , Eichen-Buchen-Mischwald, MF6, Niederzissen , ZFMK-MAL-0000091 ; verbatimElevation: 343 m; decimalLatitude: 7.2234; decimalLongitude: 50.4708; Identification: identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 23/ 8 - 6/9/2012; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_003052; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_40157 ; recordedBy: H.-J. Flügel; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538073 ; Taxon: scientificName: Cleonymus obscurus Walker , 1837; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Hessen; locality: Lkr. Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Neumorschen , Halberg , 5283g ; verbatimElevation: 196 m; decimalLatitude: 9.6022; decimalLongitude: 51.0628; Identification: identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 1/ 7 - 19/7/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_003092; institutionCode: SMNS

Ecological interactions

Parasite of

The species was reported as a parasitoid of wood-boring Coleoptera ( Scolytidae ).

Distribution

Europe incl. United Kingdom; Germany: Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz

Notes

Newly-recorded species in Germany. Tentative synonym to Cleonymus laticornis Walker, 1837 ( Bouček 1972), but female and male fit the characters described in Graham (1969). Images: Fig. 7 .

Figures

Figure 7. Digital microscopic images of Cleonymus obscurus Walker, 1837 (♀, Pte _ 003092: A - C; ♂, Pte _ 003023: D - F). A, D Habitus lateral B, E Habitus dorsal C, F Head frontal. Scale bars: A, B, D, E 500 µm; C, F 200 µm.