Heterischnus truncator (Fabricius, 1798)

Verheyde, Fons, De Ketelaere, Augustijn, Ørsnes, Geir, Pénigot, William, Storey, Malcolm, Österblad, Ika, Cameron, Al, Engan, Gunnar, Fiala, Miroslav, Lutz, Jonas, Parkhomenko, Maksym, Gokhman, Vladimir E, Dekoninck, Wouter, Cooleman, Stijn & Mees, Jan, 2025, First comprehensive catalogue of hibernating Darwin wasps in the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 176441-e 176441 : e176441-

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https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e176441

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18083781

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scientific name

Heterischnus truncator (Fabricius, 1798)
status

 

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Notes

The mesosoma very much varies in colour, from entirely red to black ( Valemberg 2014). Uses human infrastructure to hibernate (e. g. fences, information panels), but also living trees ( Platanus sp. ) or dead trees.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Belgium (9), Denmark (1) **, France (3), Germany (3), Romania (2), Russia (4), the Netherlands (7).

First record: Ca. 1829 ( Gravenhorst (1829), Germany).

Hibernacula: DT (25), LT (5), LV (2), M (1), O (6), U (3).

Sources: Gravenhorst (1829) [ Ischnus truncator Fabr. ], Berthoumieu (1896) [ I. truncator Fabr. ], Seyrig (1923) [ I. truncator F.], Constantineanu (1929 b) [ I. truncator Fabr. ], Leclercq (1953) [ Ischnopsidea truncator Fabr. ], Hilpert (1987 a), Gokhman (1988), Lungu-Constantineanu and Constantineanu (2014), Verheyde and Quicke (2022); Unpublished: Arter DK, iNaturalist, Insecte. org, Observation. org.

Also mentioned in: Sebald et al. (2000) [ Heterischnus thoracicus Grav. ].

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

SubFamily

Ichneumoninae

Tribe

Phaeogenini

Genus

Heterischnus