Homotherus varipes ( Gravenhorst, 1829 )

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.18083150
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scientific name	Homotherus varipes ( Gravenhorst, 1829 )
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Notes

Similar in ecology and phenology to Homotherus locutor , but with fewer records. There is no information on the context of the observation in Germany, but the specimen in the Netherlands was found hiding behind outdoor lamps on a building. Some additional field records exist from Denmark and the Netherlands in November (GBIF), but it is unclear if the specimens were hibernating.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Germany (1), the Netherlands (1) *.

First record: 1980-2006 ( Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005), Germany).

Hibernacula: B (1), U (1).

Sources: Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005); Unpublished: Observation. org.