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Key to northern European Rhyssinae
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Rhyssinae
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Occipital carina
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Occipital carina complete (Pimplinae).
Occupital carina interupted medially.
Body coloration
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1. Body with white, somtimes almost blueish, spots. Base color black.
2. Body with yellow spots (sometimes red spots also present). Base color black, redish, or brownish.
3. Body black with red bands on at least the 2nd and 3rd tergites (shape of tergites different than illustrated).
4. Body entirely black or with light areas yellow and limited to scutellum and mesoscutum.
Antennae
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Antennae with a white band medially.
Antennae without white band.
Mesoscutum
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Mesoscutum with light spots.
Mesoscutum without light spots.
Face
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Face black, at most with two small central white spots.
Face without central white spots, inner orbits with distinct spots or bands.
Scutellum
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Scutellum yellow.
Scutellum black.
First tergites
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1. Tergites 1 and 2 without yellow or white areas (species with distinct red fields, continental specimens almost completely red).
2. Tergites 1 and 2 with yellow or white areas (with or without red fields).
Abdomen spots
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1. Apical spots of abdomen more or less circular.
2. Apical spots of abdomen oval.
Clypeus
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Clypeus with a apical tubercle.
Clypeus without apical tubercle.
Likely taxa
Megarhyssa perlata
Megarhyssa rixator
Megarhyssa superba
Megarhyssa vagatoria
Pseudorhyssa alpestris (Pimplinae)
Pseudorhyssa nigricornis (Pimplinae)
Rhyssa amoena
Rhyssa kriechbaumeri
Rhyssa persuasoria
Rhyssella approximator
Rhyssella obliterata
Info
This key covers all Rhyssinae species listed as occurring in northern Europe (2024). Two members of Pimplinae,
Pseudorhyssa alpestris
and
Pseudorhyssa nigricornis
, are also included due to them sharing the transverse striae on the mesoscutum that is otherwise unique to Rhyssinae.
References
Finlands Artdatacenter (2024). LAJI.FI: Rhyssinae.
https://laji.fi/sv/taxon/MX.309079
[2024-06-27]
SLU Artdatabanken (2024). Artfakta: Rhyssinae.
https://artfakta.se/taxa/1000031
[2024-06-27]
Varga, A. (2014). A review of the subfamily Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians.
Vestnik zoologii, 48
(1), 27–34.
