Casinaria pallipes Brischke 1880
- 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 pallipes
description
D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀: Body length 5 - 6 mm. Flagella with 29 segments; 1 st flagellomeres length 3.6 x width; preapical flagellomeres slightly longer than wide or square. Temples narrow and strongl narrowed behind eyes; head 2.3 - 2.4 x wider than long. Distance of lateral ocelli to eyes 0.6 x and between them 1.3 x their diameter. Face moderately narrowed ventrally, finely rugose-punctate, minimal width 0.72 x eye length and 0.9 x frons width. Malar space length 0.5 x width of mandibular bases. Genal carinae not bent outwards and obsolete ventrally, reaching hypostomal carinae far from mandibular bases in an acute angle of 70 °. Hypostomal carinae not elevated. Mesopleural discs granulate and finely rugulose, superficially punctate; specula granulate, matte; dorsal impressions with fine striae. Prepectal carina narrow and absent on the transversal parts. Metapleura finely rugose; coxal carinae partly developed. Propodeum with complete carinae; area superomedia wider than long (2 x), costulae usually absent; area petiolaris moderately impressed, with irregular rugae. Hind femora length 4.2 - 4.3 x width; length of inner spurs of hind tibiae 0.67 x hind metatarsus length. Areolets stalked, 2 nd recurrent veins distal of middle; nervuli strongly postfurcal; postnervuli intercepted behind the middle; external angles of discoidal cells acute (70 °); nervelli of hind wing intercepted in the apical 0.6 - 0.7. 2 nd tergite length 1.0 - 1.1 x width; thyridia usually transverse, distance to basal margins 0.5 - 1 x their length; 3 rd tergite length 0.65 - 0.75 x width. Colour: Black. Palps and mandibles yellow. Tegulae reddish-yellow. Scapes and pedicels often reddish or yellowish internally. All coxae black, fore and middle coxae sometimes reddish apically; trochanters and trochantelli reddish-yellow, hind trochantelli dark; fore and middle legs reddish; fore and middle tibiae yellowish externally; hind femora reddish-brown or blackish; hind tibiae reddish, yellowish to ivory basally and externomedially, brown subbasally and apically; hind tarsi except pale basal half of metatarsi brown. Pterostigmata brown. ♂: Flagella with 27 - 28 segments. Distance of lateral ocelli to eyes 0.6 - 0.9 x and between them 1.4 x their diameter. Hind femora length 4.1 x width. 2 nd tergite length 1.15 x width; 3 rd tergite length 0.70 x width. Hind trochantelli yellow-red. Structure and colour otherwise as described for the ♀. H o s t s: unknown.
discussion
R e m a r k: This species resembles C. stygia TSCHEK but differs by the following features: metasoma stouter, preapical flagellomeres square or slightly longer than wide, sculpture of mesopleura slightly stronger, colour of hind tibiae paler, area superomedia wider, malar spaces longer.
distribution
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Austria * and Germany.
materials_examined
Casinaria pallipes BRISCHKE, 1880: 148 ♀ ♂ Types lost, interpretation according to the original description.
Name
- Homonyms
- Casinaria pallipes Brischke 1880