Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity 3084
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Stigenberg, Julia
Author
Ronquist, Fredrik
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Zele albiditarsus
Curtis, 1832
Fig. 10a, 16
,
134
Zele albiditarsus
Curtis, 1832:
415
Holotype ♂
Great Britain
: “
Regents Park
,
England
” (NMV, Melbourne).
Zele testaceator
Curtis, 1832:
415
Lectotype ♀, (NMV, Melbourne). Synonymized by
Van
Achterberg 1979:376
Perilitus albitarsus
Nees von Eisenbeck, 1834:34
Meteorus albitarsis
Haliday, 1835:24
Perilitus dispar
Wesmael, 1835:
22
Lectotype ♀,
Belgium
:
Brussels
,
Wesmael
coll. (
IRSNB
,
Brussels
)
.
Meteorus calcitrator
Curtis, 1837:118 Synonymized
by
Van
Achterberg 1979:376
Meteorus(Perilitus) wesmaeli
Boie 1850:
214
Lectotype ♀ (ZM, Kiel).
Perilitus pallitarsis
Cresson, 1872:
81
Holotype ♂, (ANSP, Philadelphia).
Synonymized
by
Van
Achterberg 1979:376
Meteorus testatrix
Schulz 1906
: Spolia Hymenopterologica. Paderborn (Junfermann). 356pp.
Meteorus maximus
Muesebeck 1923:
13
Holotype ♀, (USNM Smithsonian Institute,
Washington
). Synonymized by
Van
Achterberg 1979:376
Diagnosis
: Most similar to
Z. deceptor
, from which some specimens may be hard to separate. The variability in size and colour is very large in
Z. albiditarsus
but the short and wide fore femur (5.0–6.0 times as long as wide) and the long fore tibia spur (0.4–0.5 times fore basitarsus) are good characters to distinguish this species from
Z. deceptor
, which has a more slender fore femur (6.5–9.0 times as long as wide) and a shorter fore tibia spur (0.2–0.4 times fore basitarsus).
Studied Material
: ~
200 specimens
.
Description
: Antennal articles 37–50. Ocelli large, OOL=1. Eyes large, protuberant and not convergent. Malar space about 0.25 times mandible base. Face 1.4 times wider than high. Clypeus wide as face and slightly protuberant. Mandibles stout and twisted. Precoxal sulcus broad. Propodeum with distinct lateral and median longitudinal carinae. Length of petiolar tergum 2.5 times basal width; with dorsope. Laterope deep and joined dorsally with dorsope. Ventral borders of petiolar tergum not touching, widely separated by sternite. Ovipositor short and stout, 1.6 times as long as petiolar tergum. Hind coxa smooth punctate, tarsal claws lobed. Vein cu–a of fore wing postfurcal or interstitial, exceptionally antefurcal. Colour testaceous.
Distribution
: Occurs throughout the Palearctic. Country records:
Armenia
;
Austria
; Azerbaijan;
Belgium
;
Bulgaria
;
Canada
;
China
;
Croatia
;
Czechoslovakia
;
Denmark
;
Finland
;
France
; Georgia;
Germany
;
Greece
;
Hungary
;
India
;
Ireland
;
Israel
;
Italy
;
Japan
;
Kazakhstan
;
Korea
;
Latvia
;
Lithuania
;
Mexico
;
Moldova
;
Mongolia
;
Nepal
;
Netherlands
;
Norway
;
Poland
;
Romania
;
Russia
;
Slovakia
;
Sweden
;
Switzerland
;
Turkey
;
USA
;
Ukraine
;
United Kingdom
;
Yugoslavia
.
Biology
:
Zele albiditarsus
is known to emerge from both the larval and pupal stage of the host. It is a solitary parasitoid that has been record as parasitizing on several
Lepidoptera
families:
Geometridae
,
Noctuidae
,
Nymphalidae
,
Pyralidae
,
Saturnidae
,
Tortricidae
and the
Hymenoptera
families
Diprionidae
and
Ichneumonidae (
Yu et al. 2005
)
. We found
64 specimens
in the SMTP material caught during the period June to October. Of these, 49 were caught in the same trap placed in a Hornbeam forest in the southern parts of
Sweden
.