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Key to Northern European Xylohrurus
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Coloration
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Mesosoma extensively reddish. Metasoma completely black.
Mesosoma black. Metasoma partially reddish or orange.
Ovipositor
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Ovipositor sheaths at least 2.5 times the length of hind tibia, almost or as long as body.
Ovipositor sheaths less than 2 times the length of hind tibia, usually shorter than metasoma.
Temples
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Temples noticeably expanded behind eyes. Rare species.
Temples not or very weakly expanded behind eyes.
Info
This key includes the three known northern European species of
Xylophrurus
and one uncertain species.
X. dentatus
is here considered a synonym of
X. augustus
, see Paappanen (2020).
Likely taxa
Xylophrurus augustus
Xylophrurus cf. coraebi
Xylophrurus lancifer
Xylophrurus tumidus
References
Paappanen, J. (2020). The genus Xylophrurus Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in Finland with a discussion on the status of X. dentatus (Taschenberg, 1865).
Sahlbergia
26(1–2), 24–28.
Vas, Z. (2016). New records of ichneumon wasps in Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia with a key to the Western Palaearctic Xylophrurus species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae).
Folia Entomologica Hungarica
, 76. https://doi.org/10.17112/foliaenthung.2015.76.223
