Plutothrix acuminata (Thomson, 1878)

Tselikh, Ekaterina V., Varkonyi, Gergely & Dale-Skey, Natalie, 2022, Review of the genus Plutothrix Foerster, 1856 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) with a key to Palaearctic species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 93, pp. 1-32 : 1

Plutothrix acuminata (Thomson, 1878)

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Trigonoderus acuminatus Thomson, 1878: 13. Lectotype female (LUZN, not examined) designated by Kerrich and Graham 1957: 297.

Plutothrix cisae Hedqvist, 1966: 194. Holotype female missing ( Forshage et al. 2016). Synonymy by Graham (1993: 117).

Material examined.

Paratype female (ZMUH): "Suomi [ Finland], EH, Luopioinen , 7.8.1963, E. Kangas ", " Paratypus Plutothrix cisae Hedqvist, 1966" . Other material: Finland (in ZMUH): 1 female, Ta [biogeographical province Tavastia australis], Aitolahti , 22.VII.1932, coll. V. Saarinen , Plutothrix acuminata (Thom.) det. Koponen 2009. Russia (all in ZISP): Belgorod Prov., 1 female, 1 male, 10 km S Novy Oskol City , 50°40.683'N, 37°48.551'E, 15.VIII.2020, coll. S. Belokobylskij and O. Kosheleva.

Distribution.

Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Russia (European part), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom ( Noyes 2019; Tselikh 2019).

Biology.

Primary parasitoid of Cis boleti (Scopoli, 1763) ( Coleoptera , Ciidae ) in tree fungus Graham (1969), and Platypeza sp. ( Diptera , Platypezidae ) ( Heydon 1997).

Figures

Figures 1 - 8. Plutothrix acuminata (Thomson, 1878), non-type female (1 - 4) 1 body, lateral view 2 head and mesosoma, dorsal view 3 fore wing 4 head, frontal view. Plutothrix bicolorata (Spinola, 1808), non-type female (5 - 8) 5 fore wing 6 antenna 7 body, dorsal view 8 head, mesosoma and part of metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.8 mm (1); 2.1 mm (7).