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Capture in Cne Châteauneuf-Val-de-Bargis (France - dépt. Nièvre) on 18 V 2010

[a 2nd Insect of the same sp. ♀ was captured, in the same place, 15 mn later]

Det. JP Balmer
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Biblio (main) :
- Brock 2017 : The Banchinae Wasps ... in "RES vol. 7 Part 4" [see photo p. 150]
- Fitton 1987 - A review of the Banchus-group of Ichneumon-flies, in "Systematic Entomology - 12 - p. 33/45"
- Heinrich 1937 - Das Genus Rhynchobanchus ... , in "Arch. Naturgesch. N. F., 6: 663- 667" [I could not find this text]
- Schmidt & Zmudzinski 2003 , in Carolinea 61 (Karlsruhe) - p. 119/132
- Schmiedeknecht 1908/... - Opuscula Ichneumologica - Fasc. 24 & 30 - (see with http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org)

[for this Author, R. flavopictus = Acrogonia (scutellaris & semirufa), Leptobatus (multiguttatus) & R. (flavopictus)]

- Townes 1969 : "The Genera of Ichneumonidae" - Part. 3
- Ze-Jian Li 2018 : The genus Rhynchobanchus Kriechbaumer in China, see ttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5928072/
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I had ready sent on our Forum the photos of R. bicolor ♂ & ♀ [see viewtopic.php?f=104&t=42382&hilit=+rhynchobanchus].
I added here, in cartouche, a reduced photo of this sp. ♀ (n° 5099) , for compare with R. flavopictus.
The Antennae and Legs 2 & 3 of this latter sp. are distinctly reddish.
Remark about our capture :

- The red Tergites are entirely red and not only their base as in the Typus
- The Scutellum is black, not yellow
So we captured 2 var. (maybe regional ?)

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This very rare sp. was captured only in Italy (Bozen), Ukraine (Hodowic) & England (Berkshire)
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Keywords : Rhynchobanchus Rynchobanchus