A checklist of the subfamily Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians
Author
Riedel, Matthias
Blumenlage 22 C, D- 29683 Bad Fallingbostel, Germany
Author
Varga, Oleksandr
Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo 15, Kyiv 01030, Ukraine
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-02-18
5100
2
224
248
journal article
20587
10.11646/zootaxa.5100.2.3
8e8720a2-d116-4949-8d8e-f80d2960da98
1175-5326
6145438
462D5161-912D-4B5C-9F40-20203E5CFDCD
Mesochorus (Mesochorus) dessauensis
Schwenke, 1999
(
Fig. 16
)
Material examined.
UKRAINE
:
Transcarpathian Region
:
1 ♀
,
Svydovets
,
2–3 km
NW of Kvasy
,
48.090889°N
,
24.155835°E
,
850–900 m
, beech forest,
Malaise trap
2,
7.v–5.vi.2014
, leg.
O. Varga
(
SIZK
)
.
Distribution
. Known from Germany,
first record for
Ukraine
.
Taxonomical remark.
A small species (body length
3.5–4.5 mm
) with very large ocelli (distance between lateral ocellus and eye 0.5 × ocellar diameter) and very short and strongly narrowed temples; face wider than frons, with slightly convergent sides ventrally; and mesopleuron almost smooth, not distinctly punctate. Face reddish, inner orbits cream-yellow; mesosoma mainly brownish, mesoscutum with 4 yellowish longitudinal stripes; hind coxa with brownish spot dorsally; pterostigma brownish.