Pteromalus altus (Walker, 1834)

Haas, Michael, Baur, Hannes, Schweizer, Tanja, Monje, Juan Carlos, Moser, Marina, Bigalk, Sonia & Krogmann, Lars, 2021, Tiny wasps, huge diversity - A review of German Pteromalidae with new generic and species records (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 77092-77092 : 77092

Pteromalus altus (Walker, 1834)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_39299 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538065 ; Taxon: scientificName: Pteromalus altus (Walker, 1834); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Lkr. Main-Tauber-Kreis, Tauberbischofsheim , ex Truppenuebungsplatz ; verbatimElevation: 331 m; decimalLatitude: 9.7081; decimalLongitude: 49.6245; Identification : identifiedBy: H. Baur; dateIdentified: 2016; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 12/6/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_002236; institutionCode: SMNS

Ecological interactions

Parasite of

The host of the species is unknown, but is associated with Euphorbiaceae ( Euphorbia amygdaloides L.). Other members of the genus are reported to be parasitoids of a wide variety of hosts in many insect orders.

Distribution

Europe incl. United Kingdom; Germany: Baden-Württemberg

Notes

Newly-recorded species in Germany. Images: Fig. 39 .

Figures

Figure 39. Digital microscopic images of Pteromalus altus (Walker, 1834) (♂, Pte _ 002236). A Habitus lateral B Habitus dorsal C Head frontal. Scale bars: A, B 500 µm; C 200 µm.