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Key to Northern European Mesoleptidea
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Taxa:
Coxae
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Hind coxae red.
Hind coxae black.
Mesonotum
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Mesonotum extensively red, with or without yellow spots anterolaterally.
Mesonotum black and with a pair of yellow or reddish spots anterolaterally.
Mesonotum black and without yellow spots anterolaterally.
Metasoma
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Several tergites predominantly red.
Tergites 3-6 predominantly black with a distinct central white line or spot on the posterior margin.
Tergites 3-6 predominantly black with at most the posterior margin evenly and narrowly white.
Info
This is an adaptation of Schmiedeknecht's (1912) key, and it includes the 4 accepted species of
Mesoleptidea
known from Northern Europe.
Mesoleptidea
is in great need of a revision, and the status of some species is uncertain.
Likely taxa
Mesoleptidea cingulata
Mesoleptidea hilaris
Mesoleptidea prosoleuca
Mesoleptidea stalii
References
Aubert, Jacques F. 2000. [The West Palaearctic ichneumonids and their hosts. 3. Scolobatinae (=Ctenopelmatinae) and supplements to preceding volumes.] Les ichneumonides oeust-palearctiques et leurs hotes. 3. Scolobatinae (=Ctenopelmatinae) et suppl. aux volumes precedents.
Litterae Zoologicae. 5
: 1-310.
Schmiedeknecht, O. 1912. Opuscula Ichneumonologica. V. Band. (Fasc. XXX-XXXII.) Tryphoninae. Blankenburg in Thüringen. pp. 2323-2562.
