Platylabus rufator Riedel, 2012

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-

Platylabus rufator Riedel, 2012

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Cantone, A. Di Giulio; individualCount: 2; sex: females; occurrenceID: CD7066CE-DA59-5ECE-854A-FC384E1511C3; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Sicily; municipality: Sortino, Siracusa; locality: Riserva Naturale di Pantalica ; Identification: identifiedBy: F. Di Giovanni; 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: 5; sex: 4 females, 1 male; occurrenceID: E0647D37-5269-50ED-9084-636FDF299AF4; 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

Distribution

The species is only known from Sicily ( Riedel and Turrisi 2013).

Notes

The species has been described on a single female from Mt. Etna ( Riedel and Tomarchio 2012, Riedel and Turrisi 2013). Platylabus rufator was described by Riedel and Tomarchio (2012); however, the work has since been retracted. According to the ICZN (1999: Article 8.8), the retraction does not affect the availability of the new name published in the original work. Therefore, the authorship of P. rufator remains Riedel, 2012.

Diagnosis

Female (Fig. 9 ). With respect to the original description ( Riedel and Tomarchio 2012), antenna with 27-28 flagellomeres, white markings on flagellomeres (7) 8-11 (12). Face black with only a reddish-yellow spot in the middle or more extensive reddish-yellow colouration, also covering the clypeus and sometimes gena. Usually metasomal tergites I-III red, but sometimes metasomal tergite III brown or metasomal tergite IV almost enterely red. Hind tibia sometimes blackish in the apical 0.3-0.4.

Description of the male (Figs 10 , 11 ): Similar to female, but with the following differences: antenna stouter than female, linear, with 29 segments, without tyloids; face, including clypeus, mandibles (except for reddish-brown teeth), inner orbits and spots on outer orbits ivory; scape yellow ventrally; antenna brown, without white markings; mesosoma and metasoma more extensively black, with faint reddish colouration; apical area of propodeum black; hind tibia black in the apical 0.5.

Figures

Figure 9. Platylabus rufator Riedel, 2012, female, habitus. Scale bar 1 mm.

Figure 10. Platylabus rufator Riedel, 2012, male, habitus. Scale bar 1 mm.

Figure 11. Platylabus rufator Riedel, 2012, male, face, frontal view.