Helictes meridionator Aubert, 1961

Di Giovanni, Filippo, Badano, Davide, Dal Pos, Davide, Cucini, Claudio, Funari, Rebecca, Diller, Erich, Varga, Oleksandr, Cantone, Stefano & Di Giulio, Andrea, 2025, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Nature Reserve of Pantalica (Sicily, Italy), Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 175760-e 175760 : e175760-

Helictes meridionator Aubert, 1961

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Cantone, A. Di Giulio; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: B899AF4C-368E-5B18-ABCC-C6FA428B44CD; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Sicily; municipality: Sortino, Siracusa; locality: Riserva Naturale di Pantalica ; Identification: identifiedBy: O. Varga; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: eventDate: 27/04/2023; year: 2023; month: 4; day: 27; Record Level: institutionCode: FDGC

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Cantone, A. Di Giulio; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: 0936ACCD-63D1-582D-8E15-A09699256CB3; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Sicily; municipality: Sortino, Siracusa; locality: Riserva Naturale di Pantalica ; Identification: identifiedBy: F. Di Giovanni; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: eventDate: 05/05/2023; year: 2023; month: 5; day: 5; Record Level: institutionCode: FDGC

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Cantone, A. Di Giulio; individualCount: 1; sex: male; occurrenceID: CB2B8DD9-7317-545D-B97F-D6C96E81DC82; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Sicily; municipality: Sortino, Siracusa; locality: Riserva Naturale di Pantalica ; Identification: identifiedBy: O. Varga; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: eventDate: 09/07/2023; year: 2023; month: 7; day: 9; Record Level: institutionCode: FDGC

Distribution

Palaearctic (Eastern Palaearctic; Western Palaearctic).

Notes

Species recorded for France (incl. Corsica), Kazakhstan and Russia ( Aubert 1961, Aubert 1963, Humala 2007). This is the first record of the species for Italy (Fig. 15 ).

Figures

Figure 15. Helictes meridionator Aubert, 1961, male, habitus. Scale bar 1 mm.