Hyposoter ebenitor Aubert, 1972

Galsworthy, Anthony, Shaw, Mark R. & Haraldseide, Håkon, 2023, A key to European species of Hyposoter Förster, 1869 (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae) with descriptions of 18 new species, and notes on all included species, Zootaxa 5290 (1), pp. 1-73 : 43

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5290.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FD54D381-F123-4958-A03E-6CA71E02D06A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7959297
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E62587BF-FFB4-FFD7-FF7E-44AD966F662B
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scientific name	Hyposoter ebenitor Aubert, 1972
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Hyposoter ebenitor Aubert, 1972 View in CoL

Hyposoter ebenitor Aubert, 1972 View in CoL : holotype ♀ in MZLS ( Klopfstein et al., 2011).

This species has an ovipositor which projects well beyond the metasoma, and is therefore superficially similar to H. ebeninus View in CoL and H. rhodocerae View in CoL . It is, however, easily distinguished from both (and from virtually any other European Hyposoter View in CoL ) by the smooth surface of most of the mesopleuron, covered with fairly close punctation. Both the other species have the same area finely granulate, with any punctures almost invisible.

The species has a more southerly distribution than Hyposoter ebeninus , and has been reared from various species of Pieridae in the genera Euchloe , Pontia and Zegris ( Lepidoptera , Pieridae ) ( Shaw et al. 2016). 1 specimen in NHMUK was reared from Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus) in Israel. We have seen specimens from France, Spain, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel and Iran. Specimens in NHMUK were all taken in June.