Exochus variegatus 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 : 187

Exochus variegatus Tolkanitz, 1993

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Material examined. Holotype: male, RUSSIA, Kuril Islands : Paramushir Island, Severo-Kurilsk, 24.vii.1978, leg. V. Ermolenko (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus variegatus is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, yellow with a vertical blck mark; frons black; yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight, yellow; occipital carina absent dorsally (hardly visible); meso- and metasoma black; propodeum with area superomedia closed apically, costulae distinct; metapleuron partly 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 orange.

Distribution. Known only from Kuril Islands ( Tolkanitz 2007a).

Figures

FIGURE 15. Exochus variegatus 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.