Mesochorus (Mesochorus) dimidiator Aubert, 1970

Riedel, Matthias & Varga, Oleksandr, 2022, A checklist of the subfamily Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians, Zootaxa 5100 (2), pp. 224-248 : 240

Mesochorus (Mesochorus) dimidiator Aubert, 1970 ( Fig. 28 )

Material examined. UKRAINE: lvano-Frankivsk Region : 1 ♀, Mochary, 5 km NE of Bogorodchany, 48.505117°N, 24.352691°E, 300–310 m, mixed forest, Malaise trap 1, 21.vii–10.viii.2015, leg. O. Varga ( SIZK) .

Distribution. Europe; first record for Ukraine.

Taxonomical remark. Females of this species are characterized by the very wide face with ventrally divergent inner eye margins; stout hind femur; not or narrowly infuscate hind tibia and typical color pattern of the mesosoma (mesoscutum, scutellum and basal 2/3 of propodeum black; pronotum, mesopleuron, metapleuron and apical third of propodeum reddish).

Figures

FIGURES 28–31. The Carpathian Mesochorus spp. 28—M. dimidiator; 29—M. globulator; 30—M. macrophyae; 31—M. pallipes.