Forum Entomologi Italiani

Saluti,

Here is, a Ichneumoninae captured in "Forêt de St Prix" (France - dépt. Nièvre) on 26 IX 2014
At the place of the capture there is a cold micro-climate which is the same that the one who dominated 5000 years ago.
It is the Orgichneumon calcatorius (= sylvanus or silvanus) ♀ which was captured according with Taxapad only in Sweden & in Romania, with FE : also in Austria & Czech Republic.
Thus I had not quoted it in my key of the Stenichneumon (the former genus in which the species had been classified), fortunately I possessed the book of Constantineanu [1959 : in "Fauna RPR - Vol. IX - Fasc. 4", ... Tribul Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae"]
Being given the absence a priori of the species in France, I had doubts on my identification but Mr. Valemberg confirmed

Ciao.
D & JP Balmer