Philoctetes truncatus
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Chrysididae
Genus: Philoctetes
Name
Philoctetes truncatus (Dahlbom, 1831) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Chrysis truncata Dahlbom, 1831: 35.
- Elampus coeruleus of authors, not Dahlbom, 1854.
- Philoctetes truncatus: Kimsey and Bohart 1991[1]: 258.
Diagnosis
Length 3–5 mm. The species resembles Omalus aeneus and Omalus puncticollis by its habitus and colouration. In the female, the body is completely shiny deep blue, violet or green (Fig. 35), whereas it is mainly black with green or blue reflections in the male. Compared to Omalus species, the metascutellum is more sharply elevated and the punctures on the mesoscutum are larger. The apical notch of T3 is shallowly triangular and bordered by a thickened margin (Fig. 36). The lateral margins of T3 are semitransparent and strongly convex adjacent to the apical notch (Fig. 36).
Distribution
Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Sweden. Rare. New to Latvia (1 ♀, Jekabpils, Avotu iela, 7.–30.VI.2006, leg. P.N. Buhl). – Trans-Palearctic: from western Europe and northern Africa to Russian Far East (Kurzenko and Lelej 2012).
Biology
Habitat: sparsely vegetated sandy areas, sandstone and loess banks (Heinrich 1964[2], our own obs.). Adults occasionally visit flowers of Apiaceae (Trautmann 1927[3], Linsenmaier 1997[4]). Flight period: June to July. Host: Diodontus tristis (Vander Linden) (Crabronidae) (Hoop 1961[5], Linsenmaier 1997[4], Saure 1998[6], Jacobs and Kornmilch 2007[7], our own obs.).
Taxon Treatment
- Paukkunen, J; Berg, A; Soon, V; Ødegaard, F; Rosa, P; 2015: An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species ZooKeys, (548): 1-116. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Kimsey L, Bohart R (1991) [1990] The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford Press, New York, 652 pp.
- ↑ Heinrich J (1964) Beitrag zur Hymenopteren-fauna des westlichen Unterfranken. 1. Teil, Chrysididae. Nachrihten des Naturwissenschaftlichen Museums der Stad Aschaffenburg 71: 1–28.
- ↑ Trautmann W (1927) Die Goldwespen Europas. Uschman, Weimar, 194 pp.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Linsenmaier W (1997) Die Goldwespen der Schweiz. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Natur-Museum Luzern 9: 1–139.
- ↑ Hoop M (1961) Holsteinische Goldwespen und Stechimmen (Chrysididen und Aculeaten). Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein 32: 58–71.
- ↑ Saure C (1998) Beobachtungen und Anmerkungen zur Wirtsbindung einiger Goldwespenarten im nordostdeutschen Raum (Hymenoptera: Chrysidididae: Chrysidinae). Bembix 10: 15–18.
- ↑ Jacobs H, Kornmilch J (2007) Die Goldwespen Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 51: 73–93.
