Exochus obscurus Tolkanitz, 1999

Varga, Oleksandr, 2021, Types of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae Metopiinae) deposited at the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Zootaxa 4985 (2), pp. 173-193 : 186-187

Exochus obscurus Tolkanitz, 1999

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Material examined. Holotype: female, HUNGARY: Magyarszombatfa, 21.vi.1994, leg. A. Kotenko (deposited in: SIZK).

Diagnosis. Exochus obscurus is characterized by the combination of the following characters: face not strongly swollen, black, with narrow yellow apical line; frons black; yellow marks opposite to lateral ocelli not elongated; clypeus with apical margin straight; occipital carina absent dorsally; meso- and metasoma black; propodeum with area superomedia closed apically, costulae distinct; fore wing with vein cu-a strongly distad of Rs&M by about 0.4 of own length; third laterotergite straight from the proximal end, wedge-shaped; legs generally orange except coxae, trochanters and trochantelli black, fore and mid femora largely and hind femora ventrally brown, hind tibia moreor-less uniformly orange, weakly lighter basally.

Distribution. Currently known only from Hungary ( Tolkanitz 2007a).

Remarks. According to Tolkanitz (2007a) this species has more-or-less rounded from the proximal end third laterotergite. After examination of the holotype it was found that it is straight from the proximal end, wedgeshaped.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Exochus obscurus Tolkanitz, 1999, holotype female: a) type label; b) lateral view of habitus; c) third laterotergite; d) frontal view of head; e) dorsal view of propodeum.