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Exochus gravipes Gravenhorst 1820

  • 1. Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea;
  • 2. Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Description

Exochus gravipes Gravenhorst, 1820

(Figures 4h, 7h)

Ichneumon gravipes Gravenhorst, 1820: 384.

Exochus gravipes (Gravenhorst, 1829): 351. Lectotype: female; Type depository: IZU.

Specimens examined

(South Korea) 1 female, GN Gajisan, 25 June 1989, J.K. Kim; 1 female, JB Jirisan Sundeuryu, 10 June 1989, J.K. Kim.

Diagnosis

Female. Body length 9.0 10.0 mm. Antenna with 39 flagellomeres.

Head strongly convex, upper face with long projection and recurved; between antennal sockets with vertical ridge; dorsal margin of eyes with small triangular yellow spots. Malar space black (Figure 4h). Pronotum sunken and glabrous. Scutellum and postscutellum black. Propodeum without area superomedia (Figure 7h), basal transverse carina incomplete; area externa with hairs; area dentipara with hairs apically; spiracle of propodeum ellipse, not connected to pleural carina; upper area of metapleuron glabrous. Vein cu-a of hindwing intercepted at lower 0.25, with distinct vein Cu1. Tergite 1 with short dorsal longitudinal carina, not reaching central area of tergite 1, almost parallel; between dorsal longitudinal carinae glabrous. Tergite 3 with epipleuron wedge-shaped, the basal part not convex.

Distribution

South Korea (new record), Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.S.A., Ukraine, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

Notes

Published as part of Choi, Jin-Kyung, Kolarov, Janko & Lee, Jong-Wook, 2016, A taxonomic review of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) from South Korea with descriptions of ten new species, pp. 2327-2367 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 2351, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1197335, http://zenodo.org/record/3993034

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Exochus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gravenhorst
Species
gravipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Exochus gravipes Gravenhorst, 1820 sec. Choi, Kolarov & Lee, 2016

References

  • Gravenhorst JLC. 1820. Monographia Ichneumonum Pedemontanae Regionis. Memorie Della Reale Academia Dell Scienze Di Torino. 24: 275 - 388.
  • Gravenhorst JLC. 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars II. Breslau: Vratislaviae; p. 989.