Hemiphanes gravator Förster, 1871

Watanabe, Kyohei, 2023, Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Notes on Japanese Orthocentrinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of Four New Species, Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 52, pp. 7-44 : 22

Hemiphanes gravator Förster, 1871

[New SJN: Kubomi-hirata-hae-himebachi]

( Figs. 10A–G, 22C, D)

Hemiphanes gravator Förster, 1871: 102 .

Diagnosis. Occiput with a large median concavity ( Fig. 10F). Occipital carina present laterally. Clypeus without a median deep median semicircular notch. Upper teeth of mandible longer than lower teeth. Lateral lobe of mesoscutum polished but nearly entirely covered with short hairs ( Fig. 10 F). Tyloids of male present on FL VIII – FL XIII. Metasomal tergites at least partly tinged with reddish brown ( Figs. 10A, C, D, G).

Material examined. JAPAN: EUM, F, Hokkaido, Sapporo City, Hitsujigaoka , 21–28. V. 2003, K. Konishi leg. (MsT) ; NARO, M, Hokkaido, Mt. Tarumae-san , 12–21. VII. 1998, K. Konishi leg. (MsT) ; EUM, 3 M, Hokkaido, Yuni, Kuobetsu-gawa R., 2–12. VII. 2007, N. Kuhara leg. (MsT) ; EUM, M, Hokkaido, Sapporo City, Usubetsu , 29. IV. – 24. V. 2012, N. Kuhara leg. (MsT) ; KPM-NK 81103 , M, Hokkaido, Horokanai Town, Uryu , 11–17. VII. 2012 , K. Watanabe et al. leg. (MsT); KPM-NK 81100 , 81101 , 2 M, Kanagawa Pref., Hadano City, Mt. Koubou-yama , 5. IV. 2007, K. Watanabe leg. ; KPM-NK 81102 , M, Tochigi Pref., Nasushiobara city, Shiobara , 12–19. V. 2008, T. Matsumura leg. (Malaise trap) ; KPM-NK 80916 , M, Yamanashi Pref., Koushu City, Daibosatsu, Kaminikkawa-toge , 16. VI. 2007, K. Watanabe leg. ; KPM-NK 81108 , M, Toyama Pref., Toyama City, Arimine, Inonedani , 8–15. IX. 2009, M. Watanabe leg. (MsT) . RUSSIA: ZISP, M (det. Rossem), Leningrad, 31. VII. 1980, V. I. Tobias leg.

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido and Honshu); widely distributed in Palaearctic region ( Yu et al., 2016).

Remarks. This is the first record of this species from Japan.