Stenichneumon militarius (Thunberg, 1824)

Stenichneumon militarius (Thunberg, 1824) View in CoL

Notes

Superficially similar to Orgichneumon calcatorius , but the white markings are less extensive. Remarkably common in Denmark compared to S. culpator , while this is usually vice-versa.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Austria (20), Belgium (9), Denmark (43) **, France (23), Germany (14), Italy (1) *, Poland (2) *, Romania (1), the Netherlands (2) *, Ukraine (1) *.

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

Hibernacula: DT (214), DTCL (5), DV (1), M (7), S (1), U (14).

Sources: Tischbein (1863) [ Ichneumon pistorius Gr. ], Athimus (1901 a) [ I. pistorius Gr. ], Pic (1917) [ I. pistorius Grav. ], Seyrig (1926 a) / Seyrig (1926 b), Heinrich (1949 b) and Heinrich (1951), Renken (1956) [ I. militarius Thunb. ], Constantineanu (1959), Valemberg and Vago (1974 a) / Valemberg and Vago (1974 b) and Valemberg 1976 a, Valemberg (1978) and Valemberg (1982), Bauer (1984), Hinz and Kreissl (1992) and Hinz and Kreissl (1993), Sebald et al. (2001), Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005), Valemberg and Vago (2013), Verheyde and Quicke (2022); Unpublished: Coll. RBINS, iNaturalist, Insecte. org, Naturbasen, Naturgucker, Observation. org, Pers. obs.

Also mentioned in: Tischbein (1871) and Tischbein (1873 a) [ Ichneumon pistorius Gr. ], Rasnitsyn (1964).