Exochus hirsutus Tolkanitz, 1993

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 : 180

Exochus hirsutus Tolkanitz, 1993

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Material examined. Holotype: male, RUSSIA, Saratov Region: Volsk District, Belogornoye , 10.vi.1986, leg. A. Kotenko (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus hirsutus is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, black in lower half and yellow in upper half; clypeus laterally and malar space yellow; frons black with short yellow lines along eye orbits (reaching only the level of the antennla sockets); yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight; occipital carina absent dorsally; meso- and metasoma black except upper hind corner of pronotum and subtegular ridge yellow; propodeum with area superomedia closed apically, costulae absent, area dentipara densely pubescent; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite straight from the proximal end, wedge-shaped; legs generally yellowishorange, coxae with black marks, hind femora apically, hind tibia basally and apically fuscous.

Distribution. Currently known from Hungary, Kazakhstan (Kokshetav Region) and Russia (Saratov Region) ( Tolkanitz 2007a).

Figures

FIGURE 8. Exochus hirsutus Tolkanitz, 1993, holotype male: a) lateral view of habitus; b) type label; c) third laterotergite; d) frontal view of head; e) dorsal view of propodeum.