Echthronomas quadrinotata (Thomson, 1887)

Varga, Alexander, 2014, First record of the genus Echthronomas Forster, 1869 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Campopleginae) for the fauna of Ukraine, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1006-1006 : 1006

Echthronomas quadrinotata (Thomson, 1887)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Varga A.; sex: female; Location: country: Ukraine; stateProvince: Transcarpathian region, Rakhiv district, Kvasy; verbatimElevation: 630-650 m; verbatimLatitude: 48° 08' N; verbatimLongitude: 24° 16' E; Event: eventDate: 16 August 2009

Diagnosis

Female. This species is easily distinguishable from all Echthronomas species in having a transversely wrinkled propodeum, black clypeus with two yellow lateral spots, black face and malar space (Fig. 3a), black fore coxae with red (yellowish) spots, black metasoma with red postpetiole apically and tergites II–IV (Fig. 3b).

Echthronomas tricincta (Gravenhorst, 1829) differs from Echthronomas quadrinotata (Thomson, 1887) in having entirely yellow fore and mid coxae, clypeus, and malar space, partly yellow face, and a black metasoma with only red apically tergites II–IV. Another species, Echthronomas ochrostoma (Holmgren, 1860), is similar to Echthronomas quadrinotata (Thomson, 1887), but differs in having a yellow malar space and clypeus (sometimes with a small black central spot) ( Horstmann 1987).

Biology

Hosts

Eilema sp. ( Arctiidae ) ( Horstmann 1987).