Types of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae Metopiinae) deposited at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Author
Varga, Oleksandr
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-06-14
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journal article
5869
10.11646/zootaxa.4985.2.2
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Exochus gratus
Tolkanitz, 2003
(
Fig. 7
)
Material examined.
Holotype
: female,
RUSSIA
,
Sakhalin Region
:
Novo-Aleksandrovsk
,
17.vii.1986
, leg.
M. Nesterov
(deposited in:
SIZK
).
Diagnosis.
Exochus gratus
is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, black with a yellow line along apical margin; frons along eye orbits yellow (not reaching the level of the apical ocellus); yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight; occipital carina absent dorsally; meso- and metasoma black except upper hind corner of pronotum and subtegular ridge yellow; propodeum with area superomedia closed apically, costulae absent; fore wing with vein
cu-a
strongly distad of
Rs&M
by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite more-or-less rounded from the proximal end; legs generally orange-yellowish, hind tibia whitish centrally, fuscous basally and apically.
Distribution.
Currently known only from the
Sakhalin
Island of
Russia
(
Tolkanitz 2007a
).
Remarks.
According to
Yu
et al
. (2016)
the
holotype
of this species is deposited at the Zoological Institute of RAS, but actually it is in
Kyiv
which is metioned in
Zerova
et al.
(2006)
. This species is placed in a group of species with whitish basally hind tibia in the key of
Tolkanitz (2007a)
(couplet 161). After examination of the
holotype
it was found that hind tibia basally narrowly fuscous.