Plectiscidea communis (Förster, 1871), Unreported

Verheyde, Fons, Hoekstra, Paul, Libert, Pierre-Nicolas, Meijer, Hilco, Ketelaere, Augustijn De, Vandaudenard, Thibaud, Belgers, Dick & Brosens, Edwin, 1880, Two hundred and five ichneumonid wasps reported for the first time in Belgium and the Netherlands (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 122, pp. 1-142 : 85

Plectiscidea communis (Förster, 1871)

Plectiscidea spp. have two bullae in the second recurrent vein, the glymmae are absent and the petiolar area does not have a median carina. Their first tergite is matt and the flagellar segments of the females are slender ( TOWNES, 1971).

Plectiscidea communis has the longest ovipositor in the genus, namely 0.72–0.85× fore wing length ( VAN ROSSEM, 1991). First report for the Netherlands; unreported in Belgium.

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THE NETHERLANDS: • 1 ♀; Olterterp (FR); 53°04’12”N 6°06’20”E; 28/viii/2015; H. Meijer leg.; coll. HM; field observation; H. Meijer det.