Key to northern European Adelognathinae (females)

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This key covers almost all Adelognathidae species that are known to occur in northern Europe (except A. aciculatus) as of 2024. There are very few works covering this subfamily, so I’ve had to source almost all characters from Kasparyan’s dichotomous key. There are therefore severe holes in the data, some of which I’ve had to temporarily fill in with all possible options for a given step (resulting in some wierd behaviour at times). Results should ideally be double-checked with the source material or an expert. I suspect the variability of some species is underestimated. Since the males of several species are unkown I decided to only cover the females with this key (for now).

Missing species

  • Adelognathus aciculatus



References

KASPARYAN D.R. (1990): Fauna of USSR. Insecta Hymenoptera. Vol. III(2). Ichneumonidae. Subfamily Tryphoninae: Tribe Exenterini. Subfamily Adelognathinae. – Nauka Publishing House. Leningrad, pp. 1-342. (in Russian).

Riedel, M. & Magnusson, P. (2017). The genus Adelognathus HOLMGREN (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae: Adelognathinae) in Sweden - Second contribution to the Swedish Malaise trap project. Entomofauna 38(25), 513–528.

SLU Artdatabanken (2024). Artfakta: Adelognathinae. https://artfakta.se/taxa/1000034 [2024-07-11]

Finlands Artdatacenter (2024). LAJI.FI: Adelognathinae. https://laji.fi/sv/taxon/MX.309116 [2024-07-11]