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Key to northern European Mesoleptidea
Mesoleptidea
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Taxa:
Vertex
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Vertex with a pair of white spots.
Vertex without white spots.
Temples and occiput
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Temples or occiput at least partially reddish.
Temples and occiput black.
Mesoscutum
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Mesoscutum extensively red, with or without yellow spots anterolaterally.
Mesoscutum black and with a pair of yellow or reddish spots anterolaterally.
Mesoscutum black and without yellow spots anterolaterally.
Mesopleuron sculpture
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Mesopleuron rugulose without or with limited punctation.
Mesopleuron not rugulose, at most with areas of longitudinal striae and ususally with distinct punctation.
Mesolpeuron coloration
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Mesopleuron black with at least the lower forth pale, red colouration limited to spots or to the margin between the black and pale areas.
Mesopleuron different.
Coxae
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Hind coxae red, at most narrowly darkened basally or apically.
Hind coxae black dorsally and red ventrally, the margin between the two colors quite sharp.
Hind coxae mostly black, sometimes indistinctly reddish in some areas or partially whitish.
Metasoma color
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Base color of several tergites reddish or orange.
Base color of all tergites more or less black.
Metasoma white areas
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Tergites 3-6 with usually clearly triangular and large white areas on the posterior margin. Posterior tergites white laterally.
Tergites 3-6 with the posterior margin not white or more evenly and narrowly white. Posterior tergites white laterally.
All tergites without distinct white areas.
Sternites
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Sternites 4-6 orange or blackish.
All sternites white and with distinct, roundish dark spots.
All sternites white. Dark spots small, uneven or absen on apical sternites.
Pterostigma
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Dorsal side of pterostigma distincly darkened basally, ventral side white.
Dorsal side of pterostigma not darkened basally, ventral side white or yellowish.
Occipital carina
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Occipital carina with a median notch.
Occipital carina evenly rounded.
Remaining taxa:
Mesoleptidea cingulata
Mesoleptidea hilaris
Mesoleptidea prosoleuca
Mesoleptidea sp. 1
Mesoleptidea sp. 2
Mesoleptidea sp. 3
Mesoleptidea stalii
Discarded taxa:
Info
This is an adaptation of Schmiedeknecht's (1912) key whith three aditional likely undescribed species of
Mesoleptidea
added. Note that the undescribed species have not been formally described and may or may not be so in the future.
Mesoleptidea
is in great need of a revision, and the status of some species is uncertain.
References
Aubert, J.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.
Key to northern European Mesoleptidea
Mesoleptidea
