Casinaria nigripes (Gravenhorst 1829)
- Dataset
- Revision of the Western Palae arctic species of the genus Casinaria H (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Campopleginae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Ichneumonidae
- genus
- Casinaria
- species
- Casinaria nigripes
biology_ecology
Hosts: Calliteara pudibunda (LINNAEUS, 1758) (Lep. Noctuidae) (EDI, ZSM), Lasiocampa quercus (LINNAEUS, 1758) (Lep. Lasiocampidae) (EDI).
description
D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀: Body length 9 - 12 mm. Flagella with 39 - 41 segments; 1 st flagellomeres length 2.8 x width; preapical flagellomeres length 1.2 - 1.5 x width. Temples narrow, strongly narrowed behind eyes; head 2.3 - 2.4 x wider than long. Distance of lateral ocelli to eyes 0.65 - 0.8 x and between them 1.5 x their diameter. Face moderately narrowed ventrally, finely rugose-punctate, minimal width 0.9 x frontal width and 0.65 x eye length. Malar space length 0.4 x width of mandibular bases. Genal carinae strongly bent outwards ventrally, reaching mandibular bases in an angle of 90 °; genae concave ventrally. Hypostomal carinae slightly elevated. Mesopleural discs ± rugulose-punctate; specula granulate; dorsal impressions strongly striate, striae sometimes reaching anterior margin of mesopleura. Prepectal carina not or slightly elevated, with a short but distinct dentiform or lamelliform elevation on transversal parts (similar to Trychosis tristator TSCHEK). Metapleura finely rugose or granulate, with some rugae ventrally; coxal carina indistinct. Propodeum with short basal carinae (area basalis); area petiolaris not strongly impressed, with fine irregular rugae. Hind femora slender, length 5.4 - 6.0 x width; inner spurs of hind tibiae length 0.6 x hind metatarsus length. Areolets with long stalk, 2 nd recurrent veins in the middle; nervuli interstitial or slightly postfurcal; postnervuli intercepted in the middle, external angles of discoidal cells acute (80 °); nervelli of hind wing strongly reclivous, not or weakly inter- cepted. 2 nd tergite length 2.0 - 2.3 x width; thyridia roundish, distance to basal margins of tergite 1.5 - 2 x their length; 3 rd tergite length 1.1 - 1.2 x width. Colour: Black including flagella, tegulae and mandibles, tegulae sometimes reddishyellow. 2 nd tergite subapically or apically, and 3 rd and 4 th tergites, sometimes also 5 th tergite ± reddish. Coxae and trochanters black, sometimes fore trochanters yellowish; fore trochantelli, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-red; middle femora brownish, apically as tibiae and tarsi yellow-red; hind femora blackish; hind tibiae yellowish basally, reddish-brown externo-medially, black subbasally and in apical 0.4, sometimes hind tibiae dark brown with cream-yellow bases. ♂: Flagella with 36 - 40 segments. Hind femora length 5.4 x width. 2 nd tergite length 2.0 - 2.1 x width; 3 rd tergite length 1.1 x width. Structure and colour otherwise as in ♀.
distribution
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Austria, Bulgaria *, Czechia (Bohemia), France, Germany, Italy *, Switzerland.
materials_examined
Campoplex nigripes GRAVENHORST, 1829: 598 ♂ Types lost (HORSTMANN 2000: 1207), interpretation according to the original description. syn. Casinaria scutellaris TSCHEK, 1871: 58 ♀ Holotypus: (♀) Type, 25.9.66, Piesting TSCHEK (Wien), studied by HORSTMANN. syn. Casinaria cingulata Strobl, 1904: 68 - 69 ♀ ♂ Lectotypus: (♀) C. cingulata ... Bruck ♂ Gesäuse ... 26 / 7 90 ♀ (Admont), studied by HORSTMANN.