Capture in Cne St-Germer-de-Fly (France - dépt. Oise) on 23 VII 2004
Det. JP Balmer
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Biblio (main)
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Brock 2017 : The Banchinae Wasps ...,"RES vol. 7 Part 4"
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Fitton 1985 : see
https://ia802307.us.archive.org/24/item ... tolond.pdf -
Townes 1969 : "The Genera of Ichneumonidae" - Part. 1 & 3
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You use the keys that we sent on our Forum, entitled :
... Adaptation for the ♂ & ♀ (of France & Italy) of the subFamilies's Key contained in "The Genera of Ichneumonidae" of H. Townes ...
Our Capture :
- Has the upper Tooth of Mandible divided into an upper & lower point by a weak notch
[I was not able to make a photo of this characteristic visible with a binocular magnifying glass]
- The inner Eye margins does not convergent ventrally significantly
You find 2 Genera :
Banchus &
Rhynchobanchus-----
Banchus : Carina
N present (see photo)
Rhynchobanchus : Carina
N absent
Then, our capture is a
Banchus-----
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You use the key of Brock (p.122).
Then, our capture is a ♀
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You use the key of Fitton.
There are 11 sp. in Europe.
- sp. with Femora 3 [black : entirely or mainly]
or/& [yellowish posteriorly] :
crefeldensis, dilatorius, gudrunae, moppitti, zonatus- other sp. with Flagellum orange/yellow (entirely or mainly) :
falcatorius, pictus, turcator- other sp. with Tergite 1 (in view lateral) bent in the shape of knee (our capture has the tergite 1 regularly curved) :
hastator- There remain 2 sp. :
palpalis &
volutatorius[I was not able to make good photos of the Maxillary palps]
- palpalis : Maxillary palps with Lg. segment 4 >> Lg. segment 5 (different from our capture)
- volutatorius : Maxillary palps with Lg. segment 4 ~ Lg. segment 5 (as our capture)
Of where the determination
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[The sp.
volutatorius was captured in Italy]
