Hyposoter anglicanus ( Habermehl, 1923 )

Galsworthy, Anthony, Shaw, Mark R. & Haraldseide, Håkon, 2023, A key to European species of Hyposoter Förster, 1869 (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae) with descriptions of 18 new species, and notes on all included species, Zootaxa 5290 (1), pp. 1-73 : 34

Hyposoter anglicanus ( Habermehl, 1923)

Anilasta anglicana Habermehl, 1923 : holotype ♀ in NHMN, examined.

We have examined the female holotype, as had Horstmann. The species is something of a mystery, as it appears to be reliably known only from the holotype specimen. Although Habermehl stated that this specimen was from the environs of Lichfield UK (L. Carr collection), the specimen itself bears no locality label, and the species has now been excluded from the current British checklist because of doubts about the origin of Carr’s specimens (see Perkins 1953; Shaw 2003). The holotype is very similar to some specimens of H. longulus , and may well belong to that species. The biology is unknown.