Diplazon pallicoxa Manukyan 1987

Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), Zootaxa 3801 (1), pp. 1-143 : 43

Diplazon pallicoxa Manukyan 1987

Diagnosis. Fore wing length 3.8–4.6 mm. Antenna of both sexes with 16–17 flagellomeres. Face with punctures disappearing against the coriaceous background. Mesopleuron smooth and polished weakly punctate largely restricted to lower half. Propodeum with carinae partly reduced, only basal and petiolar areas fully enclosed, lateral and pleural carinae mostly reduced or weak. Tergite 1 1.05–1.2, tergite 2 0.75–0.9 times as long as wide; tergites 2, 3 and usually 4 distinctly punctate on smooth and polished background. Transverse impressions deep on tergites 1 to 3 and usually 4. Metasoma narrow, tapered posterior to fourth segment.

Colouration of females. Antenna black. Head and mesosoma black, face with yellow inner orbits which are usually confluent with yellow on clypeus, without yellow central face patch, yellow on clypeus and mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, small shoulder mark, upper mesepimeron; scutellum yellow. Legs orange, coxae entirely yellow, hind coxa sometimes with an orange tinge; femora orange; hind tibia white with a small dark basal and a dark apical band, hind tarsus dark. Metasoma brown.

Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow ventrally on scape and pedicel, and entire face.

Material examined. New for Germany: Thüringen, Gotha, Galberg, leg. Jänner, 25.VI.1917. 1♀, at NKME . New for Sweden: Småland, Nybro kommun, Bäckebo, Grytsjöns naturreservat, Old aspen forest in boulder terrain, N56°55'53.07'', E16°5'7.93", leg. SMTP, 27.VI.–2.VII.2005. 1♀, at NRM.

Finland (1), Germany (1), Russia (1), Sweden (2), Switzerland (4).

Distribution. Palaearctic.

Figures. Propodeum ( Fig. 17 B).

Figures

FIGURE 17. Variability of propodeal carination in the genus Diplazon. A. Diplazon pectoratorius ♀, propodeum. B. Diplazon pallicoxa ♀, propodeum. Scale bars represent 500 µm.