Hyposoter sicarius ( Gravenhorst, 1829 ), 2023

Galsworthy, Anthony, Shaw, Mark R. & Haraldseide, Håkon, 2023, A key to European species of Hyposoter Förster, 1869 (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae) with descriptions of 18 new species, and notes on all included species, Zootaxa 5290 (1), pp. 1-73 : 67

Hyposoter sicarius ( Gravenhorst, 1829)

Campoplex sicarius Gravenhorst, 1829 : holotype ♀ in ZMHB, examined by Horstmann.

We have seen a specimen from Germany identified by Horstmann as sicarius by comparison with the type .

The species is readily identifiable by the unusual structure of the genal carina, which disappears completely at a level well above the bottom of the eye, and a long way before it would join the hypostomal carina. Sternites 2–4 are uniform bright orange, similar to the tergites.

There is an early record ( Rudow, 1917) of rearing from Panolis flammea (Denis & Schifferm̧ller) ( Lepidoptera , Noctuidae ), but this is of doubtful reliability. The type is from Germany and we have seen specimens only from that country. There are published records of the species from many European countries from France to Russia, but possible confusion with H. dubitatus (q.v.) makes these particularly unreliable.