Ichneumon suspiciosus Wesmael, 1845

Ichneumon suspiciosus Wesmael, 1845 View in CoL

Notes

Similar to I. stramentarius . Seems to be slightly more opportunistic in hibernacula. Has been found on all kinds of dead trees (also without bark), below stones and in grass tussocks, but also even in caves ( Seyrig 1926 b), in a buried chestnut ( Verheyde and Quicke 2022) or below sand bags (Naturbasen).

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Belgium (131), Bulgaria (1) **, Denmark (20) **, France (38), Germany (14), Ireland (2), Italy (1) *, Latvia (1) *, Poland (3) *, Romania (2), Russia (1), Sweden (4) *, Switzerland (3) *, the Netherlands (5), Ukraine (1) *, United Kingdom (25).

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

Hibernacula: C (2), DT (692), DTCL (2), DV (2), LV (24), M (12), O (2), S (2), U (23).

Sources: Tischbein (1863), Berthoumieu (1894), Kriechbaumer (1896 a), Athimus (1901 b), Pic (1919), Johnson (1920), Hancock (1923) and Hancock (1925), Seyrig (1923) and Seyrig (1926 a) / Seyrig (1926 b), Heinrich (1949 a) / Heinrich (1949 b) and Heinrich (1951), Constantineanu (1959) [incl. Ichneumon trispilus Thoms. ], Rasnitsyn (1959), Aubert (1960), Valemberg (1976 b), Valemberg (1978) and Valemberg (1982), Bauer (1984), Hilpert (1989), Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005), Valemberg and Vago (2013), Pénigot (2020), Verheyde and Quicke (2022); Unpublished: Artportalen, Coll. RBINS, Dabasdati, GBIF [ I. macrocerus var. rufonotatus ], iNaturalist, iRecord, Naturbasen, Observation. org, Pers. obs., Pers. obs. (G. Artmann).

Also mentioned in: Tischbein (1871) and Tischbein (1873 b), Morley (1903), Rasnitsyn (1964) [incl. I. trispilus Thoms. ].