Exochus carens Tolkanitz, 2003

Varga, Oleksandr, 2021, Types of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae Metopiinae) deposited at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Zootaxa 4985 (2), pp. 173-193 : 178-179

Exochus carens Tolkanitz, 2003

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Material examined. Holotype: female, UKRAINE, Mykolaiv Region: Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Volyzhyn forest , 10.vi.1980, leg. V. Tolkanitz (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus carens is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, black with apical triangular projection yellow; frons along eye orbits yellow (not reaching the level of the apical ocellus); yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight; occipital carina? absent dorsally (hardly visible); meso- and metasoma black except upper hind corner of pronotum, scutellum and postscutellum apically yellow; propodeum with area superomedia opened, costulae present only apically, area dentipara only partly pubescent; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite more-or-less rounded from the proximal end; legs generally orange, fore and mid coxae black, ivory on outher side, all trochanters and hind coxae black; tibiae basally and apically fuscous, with outher ivory line.

Distribution. Currently known only from the South of Ukraine ( Tolkanitz 2007a).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Exochus carens Tolkanitz, 2003, holotype female: a) lateral view of habitus; b) type label; c) third laterotergite; d) frontal view of head; e) dorsal view of propodeum.