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Key to Nordic Anomaloninae
Anomaloninae
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Taxa:
Middle tibiae
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Middle tibiae with only one spur.
Middle tibiae with two spurs.
Colour
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Metasoma with yellow stripes. Mesosoma with yellow spots on the mesoscutum, mesopleuron and propodeum. One large southern species.
Metasoma without yellow stripes. Mesosoma usually without distinct yellow spots.
Face
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1. Face completely yellow.
2. Face yellow with a central black spot or stripe.
3. Face completely black or black and yellow (not yellow with central black spot or stripe).
Clypeus
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1. Clypeus either pointed in the middle, distinctly triangular or with a single tooth-like projection.
2. Clypeus with three tooth-like projections.
3. Clypeus blunt or rounded, without tooth-like projections.
Eyes
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Eyes hairy.
Eyes bare.
Cu and 1m-cu&M
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Cu at least 0.8 times as long as 1m-cu&M.
Cu less than 0.7 times as long as 1m-cu&M.
2nd discal cell
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Fore wing with 1m-cu and Cu meeting so that the 2nd discal cell is pointed.
Fore wing with 2nd discal cell not pointed.
Front coxae
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Anterior and inner faces of fore coxae each with a carina.
Anterior coxae without carina.
Frons
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Frons in front of ocellus with a vertical lamella.
Frons in front of ocellus without lamella.
Nervellus
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Nervellus interrupted.
Nervellus not interrupted.
Mesosternum
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Mesosternum with posterior transverse carina complete.
Mesosternum with posterior transverse carina interrupted medially.
Cubital index
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Cubital index less than 0.6 (usually less than 0.4).
Cubital index more than 0.7 (usually more than 0.9).
Notauli
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Notauli present.
Notauli absent.
Vein RS
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Fore wing vein RS slightly s-curved and 1.2-1.3 times longer than 2r&RS.
Fore wing vein RS more or less straight and 1.7-2.1 times longer than 2r&RS.
Antennae
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Antennae black or brownish apically.
Antennae yellow or orange apically.
Scape
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Scape completely yellow.
Scape at least dorsally black.
Epicnemial carina
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Epicnemial carina complete.
Epicnemial carina incomplete.
Metasternal tooth
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Underside of metasternum with a distinct tooth-like projection.
Underside of metasternum without a tooth-like projection.
1st tarsal segment
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1st tarsal segment less than 2.4 times as long as 2nd.
1st tarsal segment at least 3 times as long as 2nd.
Hind claws
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Hind claws pectinate to at least the middle with 5 or more teeth.
Hind claws at most pectinate at base with 3 or less teeth.
Scutellum shape
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Scutellum strongly convex (large and robust species, first tergite at most 4.4 times longer than high).
Scutellum less convex (smaller and more slender species).
Pronotum
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Anteroventral margin of pronotum forming a tooth-like angle.
Anteroventral margin of pronotum not forming a tooth-like angle.
Mesopleuron
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Mesopleuron punctate.
Mesopleuron striate, not punctate.
Remaining taxa:
Agrypon (most)
Agrypon flaveolatum
Anomalon cruentatum
Aphanistes bellicosus
Aphanistes gliscens
Aphanistes klugii
Aphanistes ruficornis
Barylypa
Camposcopus nigricornis
Camposcopus perspicuus
Erigorgus
Gravenhorstia picta
Habrocampulum biguttatum
Habronyx heros
Heteropelma amictum
Heteropelma megarthrum
Parania geniculata
Perisphincter brevicollis
Therion acronictum
Therion brevicorne
Therion circumflexum
Therion giganteum
Trichomma enecator
Trichomma fulvidens
Discarded taxa:
Info
This key covers all northern European genera of Anomaloninae and some species. It is primarily based on Penigot's (2021) key to the French fauna.
References
Finlands Artdatacenter (2024). Anomaloninae. LAJI.FI. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
https://laji.fi/sv/taxon/MX.310678
Gauld, I.D. & Mitchell, P.A. (1977). Ichneumonidae: Orthopelmatinae & Anomaloninae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol. 7, Part 2(b). Royal Entomological Society.
Pénigot, W. (2021). Liste et clé d'identification pour les Anomaloninae de la faune de France, avec la description d'une espèce nouvelle du genre Therion (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 126(3): 253–328.
SLU Artdatabanken (2024). Anomaloninae. Artfakta. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
https://artfakta.se/taxa/1000051
Townes, H.K. (1971). The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 17: 1–372.
