Spilothyrateles illuminatorius (Gravenhorst, 1820)

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.18083559

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3950B9D7-3471-5099-BC8F-4468887509AE

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scientific name

Spilothyrateles illuminatorius (Gravenhorst, 1820)
status

 

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Notes

This species was only recently reported hibernating and seems to be expanding ( Verheyde et al. 2021, Storey et al. 2025). Mostly found in grass tussocks, but occasionally also in evergreen trees, below stones or beneath the leaf rosettes of various plants, such as evening primrose and mullein (Observation. org).

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Belgium (1) *, Denmark (1) *, Germany (2), Italy (1) *, the Netherlands (4), Ukraine (1) *, United Kingdom (5).

First record: 1980-2000 ( Sebald et al. (2000), Germany).

Hibernacula: DT (1), LT (1), LV (10), S (2), U (3).

Sources: Sebald et al. (2000), Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005), Verheyde and Quicke (2022), Storey et al. (2025); Unpublished: iNaturalist, Observation. org, Pers. obs.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

SubFamily

Ichneumoninae

Tribe

Ichneumonini

Genus

Spilothyrateles