Virgichneumon albilineatus (GRAVENHORST, 1820)

Virgichneumon albilineatus (GRAVENHORST, 1820) View in CoL (figs 22, 42, 61, 76)

Holotype: (♀) (Wroclaw), studied and comb. nov. by RASNITSYN (1981).

D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀. Body length 12-14 mm. Flagellum with 43 segments, slightly lanceolate; 1 st flagellar segment 1.6-1.7× as long as wide; 8 th segment square, widest segments 1.6× as wide as long. Temple moderately and roundly narrowed behind eye. OED 1.5× and OOD 1.2× ocellar diameter. Frons finely rugose-punctate. Clypeus with rather dense punctures. Gena with striated and ventrally sparse punctures. MI 0.8.

Epicnemial carina low behind fore coxa. Scutellum about as long as wide, without lateral carina, with sparse punctures. Area superomedia heart-shaped or hexagonal, slightly transverse or longer than wide; costula reaching at or posterior to its middle (fig. 22). Hind coxa densely punctate, without scopa. Hind femur densely punctate, 4.1× as long as wide. External surface of hind tibia with few (3-4) denticular spines. Areolet pentagonal, frontal distance between 2rs-m and 3rs-m 3× their width; vein 2m-cu distad its middle; vein 1cu-a postfurcal by 1-2× its width.

Postpetiole without latero-median carina; median field slightly elevated, coarsely punctate. Gastrocoelus rectangularly impressed, with ridges. Thyridium 0.5× as wide as interval between thyridia (fig. 42). 2 nd tergite 1.4× as wide as long. 2 nd and 3 rd tergites with rather fine dense punctures, 2 nd tergite slightly rugose medially (fig. 42). Ovipositor sheath not or slightly extended beyond metasomal apex.

Color: black. Setae of mesosoma brownish. Flagellar segments 8-13 dorsally, large and wide spot of frontal orbit opposite to lateral ocellus (fig. 76), scutellum and dorsal spots on 6 th and 7 th tergites ivory. 2 nd tergite sometimes with narrow red apical margin. Legs blackish. Pterostigma reddish-brown.

♁. Body length 14-16 mm. Flagellum with 43-44 segments. Tyloids on flagellar segments 6-16, oval, maximally almost as long as their segments. Temple moderately and roundly narrowed behind eye, occiput ± concave. OED 1.1× and OOD 1.2× ocellar diameter. MI 0.4. Clypeus with sparse punctures. Area basalis with strong central tubercle. Area superomedia hexagonal, slightly wider than long; costula reaching at its middle. Fore metatarsus with strong apical tooth. Hind femur 3.7-4.0× as long as wide. 2 nd tergite 1.1× as wide as long.

Color: black. Often sides of clypeus, wide facial orbit, frontal orbit (widened dorsally opposite to lateral ocellus) (fig. 61), collar and upper margin of pronotum, spot on tegula, subtegular ridge and scutellum ivory. Postpetiole often with narrow ivory hind margin. Legs black; fore femur reddish frontally; fore and mid femora apically and fore and mid tibiae frontally ivory, fore and mid tarsi with ± extended ivory stripes; hind tibia with subbasal ivory stripe. Pterostigma blackish.

S t u d i e d m a t e r i a l: from Germany, Georgia, Iran, Italy, Sweden.