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Diphyus latebricola (Wesmael, 1845)

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.18083063

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scientific name

 Diphyus latebricola (Wesmael, 1845)
status

 

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Notes

One of the oldest hibernation records we have. It was described by Wesmael ‘ inter arbustorum radices sub terra degens’ near Brussels - this could either mean between the roots of bushes in the soil, but also, more likely, below the decaying roots of a tree which fell over. This interpretation also matches Bauer (1984) (‘ in Wurzeltellern’). A third specimen is reported from a cave in France. On several citizen-science portals, specimens are reported in April near dead wood, in the Baltic States and Russia.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Belgium (1), France (1) *, Germany (1).

First record: Ca. 1844 ( Wesmael (1844), Belgium).

Hibernacula: C (1), DTCL (2).

Sources: Wesmael (1844) [ Amblyteles latebricola ], Bauer (1984); Unpublished: Pers. obs.

Also mentioned in: Constantineanu (1959) [ Amblyteles latebricola Wesm. ].

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

SubFamily

Ichneumoninae

Tribe

Ichneumonini

Genus

Diphyus

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