Pseudoplatylabus SMITS van BURGST, 1920

M, Alexander, 2015, Ichneumon flies of the tribe Joppocryptini of Palaearctic. Description of new genus Londokia nov. gen. and two new species L. kasparyani nov. sp. and L. leleji nov. sp. (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (2), pp. 1865-1884 : 1867-1868

Genus Pseudoplatylabus SMITS van BURGST

Pseudoplatylabus SMITS VAN BURGST 1920 - Ent. Ber. 5: 282.

Type-species: ( Pseudoplatylabus caudatus SMITS van BURGST ) = Ichneumon violentus GRAVENHORST.

Pseudoplatylabus HEINRICH 1962 - Canad. Ent. Suppl. 27: 685.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Genus includes two species. Pseudoplatylabus uniguttatus (GRAV.) is distributed only in European part of West Palaearctic. P. violentus (GRAV.) is widespread along the full territory of Holarctic – in Nearctic ( HEINRICH 1962), usual in West Palaearctic ( YU et al. 2012) and it is found by us on the territory of Russian Far East (Primorye).

M o r p h o l o g y

F l a g e l l u m: Of females slender, bristle-shaped, practically not thickened behind middle. Flagellum of males sharply ribbed practically from base with transverse, bristletopped carinae.

H e a d: Head contour from front narrowed downwards and from above behind eyes backwards; malar space equal or longer than mandible base width; mandibles narrow, sickle-shaped, smoothly and evenly curved, upper tooth long, lower one only just developed, but distinct, moved inside and situated with the same plane with upper one, not visible from front; clypeus broad, convex at base and more over impressed to apex, with raised roundly oblique lateral margins, only just separated from face by very slight broad impression, with straight or rounded front margin; malar space longer than the mandible base width; ocellar triangle only just elevated. Surface of face roughly sculptured, on temples dull in a varying degree between sculptural formations.

T h o r a x: Mesonotum convex, only just longer than breadth; notauli only just marked in the base; surface very densely punctured by irregular punctures, dull; sternauli distinct up to middle of mesopleurae; scutellum high elevated above postscutellum, bordered laterally up to apex by sharp carinae; propodeum from lateral of broken type with convex horizontal part, without apophysyses and full set of carinae; area superomedia longer than width, hexagonal, costulae near its middle.

L e g s: Long, slender; hind coxae of females without scopa, claws smooth.

W i n g s: Areolet pentagonal, symmetrical, with narrow base.

A b d o m e n Of females narrow, fusiform, with strongly projecting search of ovipositor. First tergite from lateral slightly curved, almost straight, postpetiolus with elevated, smooth middle field. Gastrocoeli distinctly impressed, short and slightly oblique; thyridia distinct, considerably wider than interval between them. Sternites with fold, to entirely theirs unsclerotization.

C o l o r a t i o n: Head and thorax entirely black or with small number of white pattern, abdomen with red middle, black apex and big white spots on apical tergites, at males to predominantly black. Legs mainly red.

S i z e: Body length – 7,0- 9,5 mm

B i o l o g y a n d e c o l o g y:

Hosts: Papilio (Nymphalis) paphia L. = Argynnis paphia (L.) according to GYÖRFI J. 1958 ( YU et al. 2012).