Thyreodon morosus, Smith, 1879

Gauld, Ian D. & Janzen, Daniel H., 2004, The systematics and biology of the Costa Rican species of parasitic wasps in the Thyreodon genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (3), pp. 297-351 : 301

11. Propodeum, in lateral view, with coarse diagonal striae; propodeum with a sharp longitudinal ridge above and behind spiracle ( Fig. 28 ); mesopleuron moderately coarsely closely punctate ( Fig. 17 )............................................... 5. morosus

– Propodeum, in lateral view, finely reticulate; propodeum rounded above and behind spiracle ( Fig. 29 ); mesopleuron finely and quite sparsely punctate ( Fig. 18 ).........................12

Figures

Figures 27–32. SEM photographs of propodeum lateral. 27, Thyreodon darlingi; 28, T. morosus; 29, T. walkerae; 30, T. zitaniae; 31, T. rivinae; 32, Rhynchophion flammipennis.

Figures 15–20. SEM photographs of Thyreodon spp. 15–16, head, anterior, showing interantennal area; 15, T. santarosae; 16, T. walkerae. 17–18, mesopleuron, lateral; 17, T. morosus; 18, T. walkerae. 19–20, propodeum, lateral; 19, T. whitfieldi; 20, T. laticinctus.