Philoctetes, Abeille de Perrin, 1879, Abeille de Perrin, 1879

Rosa, Paolo, Zilioli, Michele & Jacobs, Maarten, 2017, Notes on endemic Alpine chrysidids, with key to Alpine Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879, and remarks on two rarely collected species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), Natural History Sciences 4 (1), pp. 9-18 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4081/nhs.2017.325

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12801041

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scientific name

Philoctetes
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KEY TO THE ALPINE SPECIES OF PHILOCTETES

1- Body entirely blue, green to dark green in both sexes ( Figs. 1-6 View Fig View Fig View Fig View Fig View Fig View Fig ) .................................................................. 2

- Body distinctly bicoloured: head and mesosoma green, green-blue or blue contrasting with red or golden-red T1, T2, and often T3 as well. Male sometimes dorsally darkened, but bicoloured in lateral view ........ 4

2- Metascutellum with large, elongated parallel sided projection ( Figs. 4B View Fig , 5B View Fig , 6B View Fig , 7B,D,F View Fig ) ...................... .......................….… Ph. putoni (du Buysson, 1892)

- Metascutellum without projection, sharply angled or slightly protruding ( Figs.1B View Fig , 2B View Fig , 7A,C, 7 E View Fig ) ........…3

3- Body covered with short (up to 1.5 MOD)standing white setae. In lateral view, metascutellum sharply convex; apical median notch on T3 with thick border; posterolateral margins of T3 sinuous ….......................…… ………....………...... Ph. truncatus ( Dahlbom, 1831)

- Body covered with long (up to 2 MOD) standing black setae ( Figs. 1D View Fig , 2D View Fig ); in lateral view metascutellum slightly protruding ( Figs. 1B View Fig , 2B,C View Fig , 7C View Fig ), and in dorsal view triangularly shaped ( Fig. 7A View Fig ); apical median notch on T3 with thin border, posterolateral margins of T3 uniformly arched ( Figs. 1D View Fig , 2D View Fig ) .............…..…. Ph. helveticus ( Linsenmaier, 1959)

4- T1 and T2 red or golden red, distinctly contrasting with green or light blue T3. T3 margin with a shallow median notch, and uniformly arched laterally. T3 without transverse swelling or thickened rim ….............................. ...................... Ph. bogdanovii ( Radoszkowski, 1877)

-T1,T2,andT3uniformlyredorgoldenred.T3marginwitha deepmediannotch,andsinuouslaterally,orapicalmargin of T3 with transverse swelling and shallow notch ..... 5

5- Margin of T3 with a shallow median notch, transverse swelling, and uniformly arched sides …......... .............................. Ph. punctulatus ( Dahlbom, 1854)

- Margin of T3 with deep median notch, no transverse swelling, and sinuous sides (in male sometimes less evidently so) .......... Ph. bidentulus (Lepeletier, 1806)

MOD

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Biology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Chrysididae

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