Dusona obliterata
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Dusona
Name
Dusona obliterata (Holmgren, 1872) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Campoplex oblitera Holmgren, 1872: 1-89. Lectotype: female; TD: NR.
- Campoplex limiventris Kriechbaumer, 1883: 97-115. Holotype: male; TD: ZSM.
Material examined
[Korea]: 1 female, GG Paju-si, Jeokseong-myeon, Seolma-ri, 18 August 1984, M.I. Lee.
Redescription based on Korean specimen
Female. Body length 16.0 mm.
Color: Face and mesosoma black. Mandible yellow. Tegula blackish brown. All coxae black; fore and mid legs yellowish brown; hind leg blackish brown except tibia yellowish brown. 2nd tergum on ventro-apical edge to basal of 5th tergum reddish brown.
Head: Frons slightly depressed, with fine punctures and with partly obliterated median longitudinal carina. Antennal flagellum with 58 segments. Antennal carina low, the rim weak bent upwards and with radial wrinkles. Face moderately convex, densely punctated. Central part of face with weak protuberance (Fig. 4U). Clypeus not separated from face, with truncate apical edge. Mandible tapered to apex, lower tooth as long as upper tooth. Malar space shorter than half basal width of mandible.
Mesosoma: First radius of fore wing originated from middle of pterostigma. Areolet large without stalk, 2nd recurrent vein begin a little before middle of areolet (Fig. 5U). Nervellus vertical, intercepted in lower 0.3, discoidella faint. Hind wing with 9 distal hamuli. Propodeum without areola but basal transverse carina distinct.
Metasoma: Epipleurum not separated from the 3rd tergum, without black line (Fig. 7I). 1st tergum 4.6 times as long as wide, 2nd tergum 2.0 times as long as wide. Ovipositor straight and shorter than hind basitarsus.
Distribution
Korea (new record), Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, late Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia (Irkutsk, Moscow, Primor’ye, Sankt Petersburg, Smolensk), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.
Region
Eastern Palaearctic, Western Palaearctic.
Host
Lepidoptera. Noctuidae: Acronicta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758); Notodontidae: Euchila palpina (Clerck, 1759); Thyatridae: Achlya flavicornis (Linnaeus, 1758).
Taxon Treatment
- Choi, J; Lee, J; 2014: Addition to the study of the genus Dusona (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Campopleginae) in Korea with description of a new species and key to the Korean species ZooKeys, 424: 59-89. doi
