Xorides stepposus Kasparyan, 1981

Varga, O. & Kostro-Ambroziak, A., 2023, New Records Of Poemeniinae And Xoridinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) From Ukraine And Poland, With Corrections To The Ukrainian Checklist, Zoodiversity 57 (3), pp. 277-282 : 282

Xorides stepposus Kasparyan, 1981 ( fig. 8 )

Material. Non-type. Poland: Radom , Park Kościuszki, ex hornbeam branch, coll. 10.02.2017, rear. 25.02.2017, 1 ♀ (M. Milkowski) (UwB). Ukraine: Transcarpathian Reg., Vynogradiv, oak forest, 280 m, 48.1383 N, 23.0737 E, Malaise trap No. 3, 14.05– 10.06.2017, 1 ♀ (O. Varga) ( SIZK) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Currently known only from Eastern and Central Ukraine ( Varga,

2015 b), first record for Western Ukraine; first record for Poland.

Acknowledgments

The authors are deeply grateful to Stefan Schmidt ( ZSSM) for access to the type collection and imaging system during the first author’s visit to Germany in 2016; Viktor Shparyk (Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), Jerzy M. Gutovski (Forest Research Institute, Poland) and Marek Miłkowski ( Radom , Poland) for providing collected and reared materials; Niklas Johansson ( Habo , Sweden) and Jacek Hilszczański ( Forest Research Institute , Sękocin Stary , Poland) for confirmation of species identification and valuable comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. The study was partly supported by the first author’s DAAD and Visegrad scholarships .

Figures

Figs 1–9. Xorides spp.: 1–2, 4, 6 — X. corcyrensis (holotype female); 3, 5, 7 — X. fasciipennis (holotype female); 1 — antenna; 2 — wings; 3 — antenna and wings; 4–5 — metasomal tergites 1–3 (dorsal view); 6–7— type labels; 8 — X. stepposus (dorsal view of female habitus); 9 — X. depressus (lateral view of male habitus).