Macroglenes eximius (Haliday, 1833)

Haas, Michael, Baur, Hannes, Schweizer, Tanja, Monje, Juan Carlos, Moser, Marina, Bigalk, Sonia & Krogmann, Lars, 2021, Tiny wasps, huge diversity - A review of German Pteromalidae with new generic and species records (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 77092-77092 : 77092

Macroglenes eximius (Haliday, 1833)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_38801 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, T. Kothe; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538080 ; Taxon: scientificName: Macroglenes eximius (Haliday, 1833); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Sachsen; locality: Lkr. Bautzen, Knappenrode ; verbatimElevation: 125 m; decimalLatitude: 14.3279; decimalLongitude: 51.4008; Identification : identifiedBy: M. Haas; dateIdentified: 2019; Event : samplingProtocol: Sweep net; eventDate: 1/8/2013; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_001738; institutionCode: SMNS

Ecological interactions

Parasite of

The species was reported as a parasitoid of gall-inducing Diptera ( Cecidomyiidae : Contarinia nasturtii (Kieffer, 1888), associated with Asteraceae ( Artemisia herba-alba Asso), contrary to other Macroglenes spp. being associated with grasses.

Distribution

Europe incl. United Kingdom and Ireland; Germany: Sachsen

Notes

Newly-recorded species in Germany. Images: Fig. 19 .

Figures

Figure 19. Digital microscopic images of Macroglenes eximius (Haliday, 1833) (♂, Pte _ 001738). A Habitus lateral B Habitus dorsal C Head frontal. Scale bars: A, B 500 µm; C 200 µm.