Ichneumon coniger Tischbein, 1876

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-

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18083233

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scientific name

Ichneumon coniger Tischbein, 1876
status

 

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Notes

This species is mainly black with orange legs, has a white scutellum and the two apical segments are covered with white spots. More importantly, it has a tubercle on the hind coxa. The distribution seems to be slightly more eastern. The holotype of I. pentaleucus , described by Kriechbaumer (1895) and later synonymised ( Hilpert 1992), was found hibernating below moss in Germany. One uncertain hibernation record for Austria (GBIF).

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Bulgaria (2), Czechia (3), Germany (1), Hungary (1) *, Romania (4), Russia (2), Ukraine (1) *.

First record: March 1894 ( Kriechbaumer (1895), Germany).

Hibernacula: DT (24), M (1), U (3).

Sources: Kriechbaumer (1895) [ Ichneumon pentaleucus ], Constantineanu (1959), Rasnitsyn (1964), Constantineanu (1969), Kolarov (1992), Valemberg and Fiala (2009), Lungu-Constantineanu and Constantineanu (2014); Unpublished: GBIF, iNaturalist, Pers. obs.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

SubFamily

Ichneumoninae

Tribe

Ichneumonini

Genus

Ichneumon