Casinaria cultellator Aubert 1959
- 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 cultellator
description
D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀: Body length 8 - 10 mm. Flagella with 33 segments; 1 st flagellomeres length c. 2.3 x width; preapical flagellomeres slightly longer than wide. Temples narrow, roundly narrowed behind eyes, length 0.7 x eye width; head 2.2 x wider than long. Ocelli large, distance of lateral ocelli to eyes 0.7 - 0.8 x and between them 1.6 x their diameter. Face slightly narrowed ventrally, coarsely rugose-punctate, minimal width 0.55 x eye length and 0.95 minimal width of frons. Malar space length 0.2 x width of mandibular bases. Genal carinae strongly bent outwards ventrally, reaching mandibular bases in an angle of 90 °. Hypostomal carinae not elevated. Mesopleural discs finely granulate and distinctly punctate, more or less shining; specula striate; dorsal impressions wide and deep, strongly striate. Prepectal carina not elevated. Propodeum without distinct carinae, coarsely rugose; area petiolaris with rather deep and narrow impression, the impression with coarse transverse rugae. Hind femora rather stout, length 4.2 x width; length of inner hind tibial spur 0.7 x length of hind metatarsus. Areolets stalked, 2 nd recurrent veins lateral of their middle; nervuli postfurcal; postnervuli intercepted in the middle; external angles of discoidal cells acute (70 - 80 °); nervelli of hind wing slightly reclivous, not distinctly intercepted. Metasoma very slender, apical tergites strongly compressed. 2 nd tergite length 2.3 x width; distance of thyridia from basal margin 2 x their length; 3 rd tergite length 1.7 x width. Colour: Black. Palps and mandibles except teeth brown; scapes reddish internally. Tegulae cream-yellow. 2 nd tergite with diffuse reddish-brown band subapically. All coxae and trochanters black; legs otherwise red; fore femora apically and fore tibiae externally yellow; middle tibiae yellow externally, slightly darkened apically; middle tarsi brownish; hind tibiae reddish, ivory basally, brown subbasally and apically; hind tarsi except basal ivory ring of hind metatarsi blackish. Pterostigmata brown. ♂: Body length 9 mm. Flagella with 34 segments, all flagellomeres longer than wide. Mesopleural discs granulate and strongly punctate; specula partly striate, partly smooth and shining. Hind femora length 4.7 x height. Metasoma strongly compressed; 2 nd tergite length 2.4 x width; 3 rd tergite length 1.8 x width; thyridia roundish, distance from basal margin 1 x their length. Metasoma black; hind tibiae yellowish externo-medially; fore tarsi infuscate apically. Structure and coloration otherwise as in ♀.
distribution
D i s t r i b u t i o n: France.
materials_examined
Lectotypus: (♀) 21.8.1953 Cap d´Ail (A. M.) (Lausanne), studied and herewith designated. Paralectotypus: (♂) 31.7.1957, Castellar / Menton (A. M.) (Lausanne), studied and herewith designated.
Name
- Homonyms
- Casinaria cultellator Aubert 1959