Platygerrhus unicolor Graham, 1969

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

Platygerrhus unicolor Graham, 1969

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_40115 ; recordedBy: B. Rulik; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538104 ; Taxon: scientificName: Platygerrhus unicolor Graham , 1969; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Rheinland-Pfalz; locality: Kreis Ahrweiler , Bausenberg , Eichen-Buchen-Mischwald, MF6, Niederzissen , ZFMK-MAL-0000091 ; verbatimElevation: 343 m; decimalLatitude: 7.2234; decimalLongitude: 50.4708; Identification: identifiedBy: H. Baur; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 23/8 - 6/9/2012; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_003050; institutionCode: SMNS Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BOLD Sample ID: SMNS_50114 ; recordedBy: L. Krogmann, J. Holstein, T. Kothe; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry mounted; associatedSequences: GenBank: OL538127 ; Taxon: scientificName: Platygerrhus unicolor Graham , 1969; Location : continent: Europe ; country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Baden-Württemberg; locality: Lkr. Rems-Murr-Kreis, Aspach bei Backnang ; verbatimElevation: 368.5 m; decimalLatitude: 9.4197; decimalLongitude: 48.9990; Identification: identifiedBy: H. Baur; dateIdentified: 2021; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 17/6 - 15/7/2014; Record Level: datasetID: SMNS_Hym_Pte_006565; institutionCode: SMNS

Ecological interactions

Parasite of

The host of the species is unknown, but is associated with Betulaceae ( Alnus glutinosa L.). Other members of the genus are reported to be parasitoids of Coleoptera ( Anobiidae , Cucujidae and Scolytidae ) in dead wood.

Distribution

Northern and eastern Europe incl. United Kingdom; Germany: Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland-Pfalz

Notes

Newly-recorded species in Germany. Images: Fig. 35 .

Figures

Figure 35. Digital microscopic images of Platygerrhus unicolor Graham, 1969 (♀, Pte _ 006565). A Habitus lateral B Habitus dorsal C Head frontal. Scale bars: A, B 500 µm; C 200 µm.