Hyposoter alpicola (Smits van Burgst, 1914) Galsworthy, Shaw & Haraldseide, 2023
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- 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): 1-73, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5290.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5290.1.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Ichneumonidae
- genus
- Diadegma
- species
- Diadegma alpicola
materials_examined
Horstmann (1969), after examining the holotype of alpicola, speculated that this species belonged in Hyposoter. His notes, and his draft key, confirm that he had intended to transfer it to Hyposoter, and that he regarded Hyposoter postcaedator Aubert, 1964, the type material of which he had also examined, as a junior synonym of it. These intentions are now formalised here. We have not ourselves seen the holotype of alpicola, and rely on Horstmann’s notes. We have however seen the lectotype of postcaedator designated above. This is distinct from H. praecaedator in having the last 2 tergites of the metasoma darkened, and a narrow dark apex to tergite 2. The mesopleuron is fully granulate. The species resembles H. caedator more than praecaedator but, unlike caedator, it has a yellow underside to the scape. The holotype of H. alpicola was from near Bolzano in the Italian Alps. Hyposoter postcaedator was described from the south of France. We have seen two specimens of H. alpicola from Norway, both taken in July. The biology is unknown.