Psilocera confusa Graham, 1992

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

Psilocera confusa Graham, 1992

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_39830 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538117 ; Taxon: scientificName: Psilocera confusa Graham , 1992; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Niedersachsen; locality: Lkr. Luechow-Dannenberg , Hoehbeck , Trockenrasen , 15) ; verbatimElevation: 64 m; decimalLatitude: 11.4350; decimalLongitude: 53.0694; Identification: identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap; eventDate: 10/8/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_002765; institutionCode: SMNS

Ecological interactions

Parasite of

The host of the species is unknown, but is associated with Ericaceae (Erica scoparia L.). Other members of the genus are reported from various hosts in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.

Distribution

Western, central and eastern Europe incl. United Kingdom and western Asia; Germany: Hessen, Niedersachsen, Rheinland-Pfalz

Notes

Newly-recorded species in Germany. Images: Fig. 36 .

Figures

Figure 36. Digital microscopic images of Psilocera confusa Graham, 1992 (♀, Pte _ 002765). A Habitus lateral B Habitus dorsal C Head frontal. Scale bars: A, B 500 µm; C 200 µm.