Capture in “Forêt de St Prix” (Départ. Nièvre - France) - 09 VII 2013
At the place there is a cold micro-climate which is the same that the one who dominated 5000 years ago.
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Biblio:-
Berthoumieu 1894/1897 : Ichneumonides d'Europe et des pays limitrophes
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Constantineanu 1959 : in "Fauna RPR - Vol. IX - Fasc. 4", ... Tribul Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae" (in Rumanian)
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Morley 1911-1914 : in "Ichneumonologia Britannica" - Vol. I
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Schmiedeknecht 1906/1908 : in "Opuscula Entomologica" - Part 1/6 (p.1/413)
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Our capture is a ♂, because there are 8 visible Sternits, the ♀ having only 6 visible Sternits.
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I was not able to make a good photo)
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The Genera are
sensu Constantineanu.
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It is an
Ichneumoninae, an
Oxypygi Wesmael or an
Amblypygi Wesmael.
No criterion, allowing to know to which sub-Tribe belongs a species ♂
, is decisive alone.
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Let us see the characteristics allowing to find the sub-Tribe to which belongs our capture :
- The Sternits 2/4 are longitudinaly folded (
I was not able to make a good photo).
It excludes the Amblypygi : Amblyteles (Otherwise the coloring is different), Automalus, Catadelphus, Limerodes, Trogus
- The antennal Segments are not dilated of external side.
It excludes the Amblypygi : Hypomecus
- The Clypeus has not an apical tuber.
It excludes the Amblypygi : Acolobus, Listrodromus
- The Tergits are entirely black.
It excludes the Amblypygi : Hybophorus, Neotypus
- The Pronotum is not interrupted by a tuber.
It excludes the Amblypygi : Anisobas
- The Tergits are not separated by a deep furrow.
It excludes the Amblypygi : Dinotomus
- The Legs 2 are not black
& The Sternits 1-2 are not yellow.
It excludes the Amblypygi : Hepiopelmus
Pïthotomus ♂ : I did not find his description, but the Genus was captured only in Armenia, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey.
Thus our capture is not an
Amblypygi, but an
Oxypygi.
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The additional criteria allowing to identify the capture are :
- The Antennae are dorsally black
- The Thorax is dorsally black, excepted : Pronotum, Tegulae & Scutellum
- Femora 2 : the internal side is black-reddish, the external side is yellowish
- Femora 3 : black
- Tibiae 1-2 : yellowish
- Tibiae 3 : yellow, apicaly ringed with black
We obtain, after a lot (...) of stages, the identification.
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rufifrons was also captured in Italy
