Ichneumon gracilentus Wesmael, 1845

Ichneumon gracilentus Wesmael, 1845 View in CoL

Notes

Similar to I. albiger and I. extensorius . From the records unassigned to species, the only potential new country record would be for Finland (iNaturalist). The holotype of I. Wüstneii, described by Kriechbaumer (1890) and later synonymised ( Hilpert 1992), was found hibernating below moss in Denmark.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Austria (17), Belarus (13), Belgium (21), Czechia (2) *, Denmark (5), France (19), Germany (17), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Norway (15) *, Poland (1), Romania (4), Russia (6), Sweden (1) *, the Netherlands (4), Ukraine (7), United Kingdom (31) *.

First record: Ca. 1863 ( Tischbein (1863), Germany).

Hibernacula: DT (555), DTCL (56), LT (1), LV (2), M (19), U (26).

Sources: Tischbein (1863) and Tischbein (1876), Kriechbaumer (1890) [ Ichneumon Wüstneii ], Kriechbaumer (1896 b), Pfeffer (1913), Pic (1917), Johnson (1920), Seyrig (1923) and Seyrig (1926 a), Heinrich (1926), Ozols (1941), Heinrich (1949 a) / Heinrich (1949 b) and Heinrich (1951), Constantineanu (1959), Rasnitsyn (1959) and Rasnitsyn (1964), Constantineanu (1969), Valemberg (1982), Gokhman (1985), Hilpert (1989), Hinz and Kreissl (1992) and Hinz and Kreissl (1993), Gokhman 1993, Sebald et al. (2001), Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005), Valemberg and Vago (2013), Varga et al. (2020), Verheyde and Quicke (2022); Unpublished: Artportalen, Artsobservasjoner, Coll. RBINS, Facebook (Årevinger i Norge), iNaturalist, Naturbasen, Observation. org, Pers. obs., Pers. obs. (H. Haraldseide), Tereshkin (2014).

Also mentioned in: Tischbein (1871) and Tischbein (1873 b), Berthoumieu (1894) [incl. I. Wustnei], Morley (1903), Tereshkin (2002), Gokhman (2003).