Casinaria kriechbaumeri

Riedel, Olmgren Matthias, 2018, Revision of the Western Palae arctic species of the genus Casinaria H (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Campopleginae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 723-763 : 735-736

Casinaria kriechbaumeri ( COSTA, 1884) ( fig. 16 )

Campoplex kriechbaumeri COSTA, 1884: 56-57 ♀

Lectotypus: (♀) Oristano 5, Campoplex Kriechbaumeri (Naples) , studied by HORSTMANN.

D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀: Body length 7-8 mm. Flagella with 28-30 segments; 1 st flagellomeres length 2.7x width; preapical flagellomeres longer than wide or almost square. Temples narrow, strongly narrowed behind eyes; head 2.2x wider than long. Ocelli large, distance of lateral ocelli to eyes 0.7x-0.8 and between them 1.8x their diameter. Face moderately narrowed ventrally, rugose-punctate, minimal width 0.6x eye length and 0.75x width of frons. Malar space length 0.4-0.5x width of mandibular bases. Genal carinae strongly bent outwards ventrally, reaching the mandibular bases in an angle of 90°. Hypostomal carinae not elevated.

Mesopleural discs finely rugose and distinctly punctate; specula granulate; dorsal im- pressions strongly striate. Prepectal carina not elevated. Propodeum without or with short basal carinae, coarse rugose; area petiolaris with rather deep and narrow impression, the impression with transverse rugae. Hind femora length 5.3-5.4x width. Areolets stalked, 2 nd recurrent veins lateral of middle; nervuli postfurcal; postnervuli intercepted behind middle; external angles of discoidal cells acute (70-80°); nervelli of hind wings ± intestitial, not distinctly intercepted. 2 nd tergite length 1.8-2.1x width; distance of thyridia from basal margin 1.5x their length; 3 rd tergite length 0.85-1.1x width.

Colour: Black. Palps and tegulae yellow; mandibles except reddish teeth black. All coxae and trochanters black; hind trochantellus reddish; legs otherwise red; hind femora narrowly darkened apically; middle and hind tibiae blackish, ivory basally and externomedially (sometimes reduced); hind tarsi blackish except basal ivory ring of hind metatarsi. Pterostigmata brown.

♂: Body length 8-10 mm. Flagella with 31-35 segments. Hind femora length 4.6x width. 2 nd tergite length c.2.3x width, 3 rd tergite length c.1.3x width. Scapes usually blackish ventrally, rarely ± reddish. Fore and middle trochanters and trochantelli reddish. Otherwise as described for the ♀.

H o s t s: Epilobophora sabinata (GEYER, 1831) (Lep., Geometridae ) (ZSM).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Austria*, Bulgaria*, Croatia*, France*, Greece*, Jordania*, Kazachstan*, Kirgistan*, Malta*, Slovakia*, Spain*, Tunesia*, Turkey*, Turkmenistan*, Uzbekistan*.

Figures

Figs 13-16: Propodea of ♀♀ of: (13) Casinaria flagellator nov.sp. HT; (14) C. hinzi nov.sp. HT; (15) C. horstmanni nov.sp. PT; (16) C. kriechbaumeri (COSTA).