Mesoleptus laevigatus (Gravenhorst, 1820)

Barahoei, Hossein, Nader, Elham & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2015, Cryptinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) fauna of Isfahan Province of central Iran, Turkish Journal of Zoology 39 (2), pp. 279-284 : 280

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3906/zoo-1312-45

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BD3687DF-7C5D-1621-FCA3-98A1D05CBD43

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Felipe

scientific name

Mesoleptus laevigatus (Gravenhorst, 1820)
status

 

Mesoleptus laevigatus (Gravenhorst, 1820) View in CoL * ( Figures 1A–1H View Figure 1 and 2 View Figure 2 )

Material examined: 3♂♂, swept on Medicago sativa L., Filour, 28-IX-2012.

Diagnosis: Frons usually punctured ( Figure 1B View Figure 1 ), flagellum (in male specimens) with at least 4 tyloids, usually 3 long and 1 short ( Figure 1D View Figure 1 ), forewing ( Figure 1H View Figure 1 ) with vein 2m –cu with 2 bullae, hind wing ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 ) with vein m+cu fully pigmented, first metasomal tergite ( Figures 1E and 1G View Figure 1 ) without distinct lateral carinae, metasoma ( Figure 2 View Figure 2 ) compressed, second tergite short, at most twice as long as wide, lateral crease separating epipleurum from tergite 2 present, extending from base to apex of the tergite ( Jussila et al., 2010).

Distribution in Iran: New record for Iran.

General distribution: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine ( Yu et al., 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

Genus

Mesoleptus

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