Eutanyacra jucunda (Kriechbaumer, 1882)

Vas, Zoltan & Kutasi, Csaba, 2016, Hymenoptera from caves of Bakony Mountains, Hungary - an overlooked taxon in hypogean research, Subterranean Biology 19, pp. 31-39 : 35

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae

Eutanyacra jucunda (Kriechbaumer, 1882)

Material examined.

Hungary, Veszprém County, Kapolcs, Pokol-Hole, DFE: 4 m, 5 July 2012-13 November 2012, pitfall traps no. 1-3., leg. Cs. Kutasi, 1 ♀.

Remarks.

A very rare species described and known only from the Carpathian Basin ( Kriechbaumer 1882, Mocsáry 1886, Constantineanu 1959). This species is first reported here in association with hypogean habitat. No specific details are known about its biology; however, other Eutanyacra species are parasitoids of various caterpillar hosts (mainly Noctuidae ), and the females overwinter as adults ( Constantineanu 1959, Rasnitsyn 1964, Yu et al. 2012).