Phaenolobus fulvicornis (Gravenhorst, 1829)

Varga, Alexander, 2013, A review of the subfamily Acaenitinae Foerster, 1869 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Ukrainian Carpathians, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 1008-1008 : 1008

Phaenolobus fulvicornis (Gravenhorst, 1829)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Sirenko A.; sex: female; Location: country: Ukraine; stateProvince: Ivano-Frankivsk; verbatimElevation: 250-300 m; verbatimLatitude: 48° 55' 24.48" N; verbatimLongitude: 24° 42' 40.02" E; Event: eventDate: May–June 2001

Description

General features

Female. Fore wing 8 mm long. Nervellus broken at upper third. Mandible with upper tooth a little longer than lower tooth. Flagellum with 23 segments. Head strongly rugulo-punctate. In dorsal view temples narrowed behind eyes. Malar space with subocular groove. Mesopleuron polished, densely and clearly punctate. Head and mesosoma black. Clypeus and mandibles black. Flagellum red-brown, scape and pedicel black. Pterostigma fuscous. Legs: all coxae black, trochanters red and trochantelli, hind femur and basal half of first tergite black, hind tibia and tarsus fuscous, fore and mid femora, tibiae, tarsi and metasoma red.

Biology

Hosts

Phytoecia cephalotes Küster, 1846, Phytoecia coerulescens (Scopoli, 1763) ( Cerambycidae ) ( Scaramozzino 1986).

Distribution

Albania ( Kolarov and Andoni 1995), Algeria, Morocco, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Yugoslavia ( Aubert 1969), Belarus ( Sawoniewicz 2001), Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Turkey ( Kolarov 1995, Kolarov 1997, Kolarov 2008), Georgia ( Djanelidze 1966), Germany ( Horstmann 2001), Hungary ( Kiss von Zilah 1926), Iran ( Masnadi-Yazdinejad et al. 2010), Russia (Caucasus, Ryazan Reg.) ( Kasparyan 1981), Latvia ( Ozols 1958), Lithuania ( Constantineanu and Jonaitis 1979), Netherlands ( Zwakhals 1989), Poland ( Hedwig 1937), Romania ( Constantineanu and Pisica 1977), Spain ( Mazon et al. 2011), Switzerland ( Bauer 2002), Ukraine ( Kasparyan 1981).

Notes

There are another three species of this genus recorded so far from Ukraine, including Phaenolobus terebrator (Scopoli, 1763) with black metasoma and red hind femora, Phaenolobus nigripennis (Gravenhorst, 1829) with only tergites 2-4 partly red, Phaenolobus saltans (Gravenhorst, 1829) which has prepectal carina long, almost reaching subtegular ridge. Constantineanu and Pisica (1977) additionally recorded another 3 new species, described from Romania, Phaenolobus areolator (Constantineanu & Constantineanu, 1968) having the entirely black flagellum and ovipositor longer than hind tibia, Phaenolobus atrator (Constantineanu and Pisica, 1977), having the black metasoma and Phaenolobus mucronatus (Constantineanu & Constantineanu, 1968) having only tergites 2-4 partly red. But the last two species have also the second metasomal tergite with 2 oblique grooves on each side and that scaracter distinguishes these species from similar Phaenolobus terebrator (Scopoli, 1763) and Phaenolobus nigripennis (Gravenhorst, 1829) with the same coloration of metasoma respectively ( Kolarov and Gürbüz 2010).