Casinaria dubia Tschek 1871
- 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 dubia
biology_ecology
H o s t s: Apatura metis substituta BUTLER, 1873 (Lep. Nymphalidae) (EDI),? Eilema depressa (ESPER, 1787) (Lep. Arctiidae) (EDI); Lithosia quadra (LINNAEUS, 1758) (Lep. Noctuidae) (EDI).
description
D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀: Body length 7.5 - 8.5 mm. Flagella with 31 - 32 segments; 1 st flagellomeres length 3.2 x width; preapical flagellomeres about square. Temples narrow, strongly and almost linearly narrowed behind eyes. Ocelli very large, distance of lateral ocelli to eyes 0.5 - 0.6 x and between them 1.3 x their diameter. Face strongly narrowed ventrally, rugose-punctate, minimal width 0.53 x eye length and 0.85 x width of frons. Malar space length 0.3 x width of mandibular bases. Genal carinae strongly bent outwards ventrally, reaching mandibular bases in an angle of almost 90 °. Hypostomal carinae not or slightly elevated. Mesopleural discs finely rugose-punctate; specula partly almost smooth, shining; dorsal impressions strongly striate, the striae reaching the frontal parts of mesopleura. Prepectal carina narrow, absent on the transversal parts. Metapleura finely rugose; coxal carinae absent. Propodeum without carinae, finely rugose; area petiolaris with slight medial impression, without distinct transverse ridges. Hind femora length 4.6 - 5.0 x width, length of inner spurs of hind tibiae 0.65 x hind metatarsi length. Areolets stalked, 2 nd recurrent veins lateral of their middle; nervuli interstitial or slightly postfurcal; postnervuli intercepted in their middle; external angles of discoidal cell acute (75 - 80 °); nervelli of hind wings slightly reclivous, not distintcly intercepted. 2 nd tergite length 1.8 - 1.9 x width; distance of thyridia from basal margins 1 - 1.5 x their length; 3 rd tergite length 1.1 x width. Colour: Black. Palps yellow; mandibles and tegulae yellowish-red to reddish-brown. Metasoma black, usually 2 nd tergite subapically, 3 rd tergite partly and following tergites laterally reddish. Coxae and trochanters black; fore and middle trochanters yellow apically; all trochantelli yellow (rarely ± blackish); legs otherwise red; middle and hind femora reddish-brown to blackish; hind tibia reddish to brown, cream-yellow basally, yellow to reddish-brown externo-medially, brown subbasally and in apical third, sometimes hind tibiae except basal yellow spot completely blackish; hind tarsi except yellow bases of metatarsi brown. Pterostigmas brown. ♂: Flagella with 31 - 33 segments. Hind femora length 4.9 x width. Area petiolaris sometimes strongly impressed centrally and with coarse transversal rugae.
distribution
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Austria, Germany, France, Hungary *, Japan *, United Kingdom *.
Name
- Homonyms
- Casinaria dubia Tschek 1871