Exochus mitratus Gravenhorst, 1829

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, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 2327-2367 : 2353-2354

Exochus mitratus Gravenhorst, 1829

( Figures 4l , 7l )

Exochus mitratus Gravenhorst, 1829: 350 .

Exochus a ffi nis Holmgren 1858: 305 – 394.

Exochus australis Thomson 1894: 2137 . Lectotype: female; Type depository: ZIN. Exochus pseuda ffi nis Strobl 1903: 3 – 100 . Type: male.

Exochus paradoxus Schmiedeknecht 1924: 103 – 112 .

Exochus punctifer Schmiedeknecht 1924: 103 – 112 . Type: female.

Specimens examined

( South Korea) 1 male, GB Gyongsan-si, Yeungnam Univ., 4 May 1988, J.H. Kwon ; 1 male, ditto, 29 April 1989, K .J. Hwang .

Diagnosis

Male. Body length 8.5 mm. Antenna with 29 flagellomeres.

Head broad and convex, upper face with long projection and very strongly recurved ( Figure 4l ); between antennal sockets without vertical ridge; dorsal margin of eyes with round small spots. Malar space black. Pronotum sunken. Scutellum and postscutellum black. Propodeum with area superomedia incomplete ( Figure 7l ); area externa and area dentipara with moderate hairs; spiracle of propodeum oval; metapleuron glabrous except lower area. Vein cu-a of hindwing intercepted at lower 0.25, with vein Cu1. Tergite 1 with short dorsal longitudinal carina, reach central area of tergite 1, up-curved in basal area; between dorsal longitudinal carinae without hair. Tergite 3 with epipleuron semicircular.

Distribution

South Korea (new record), Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Islands, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, USA, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

Figures

Figure 4. Head in frontal view. (a) Exochus argutus; (b) Exochus britannicus; (c) Exochus consimilis; (d) Exochus destitutus; (e) Exochus flavomarginatus; (f) Exochus frontellus; (g) Exochus gratus; (h) Exochus gravipes; (i) Exochus guttatus; (j) Exochus lictor; (k) Exochus lineifrons; (l) Exochus mitratus. Scale bar = 0.2 m m.

Figure 7. Propodeum in dorsal view. (a) Exochus argutus; (b) Exochus britannicus; (c) Exochus consimilis; (d) Exochus destitutus; (e) Exochus flavomarginatus; (f) Exochus frontellus; (g) Exochus gratus; (h) Exochus gravipes; (i) Exochus guttatus; (j) Exochus lictor; (k) Exochus lineifrons; (l) Exochus mitratus. Scale bar = 0.2 m m.