Orthocentrus orbitator Aubert, 1963

Varga, Oleksandr & Di Giovanni, Filippo, 2025, Revision of the Western Palaearctic species of Orthocentrus Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Orthocentrinae): species with ivory / yellow marks on the vertex, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 98, pp. 841-860 : 841-860

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scientific name	Orthocentrus orbitator Aubert, 1963
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Orthocentrus orbitator Aubert, 1963 View in CoL

Fig. 7 View Figure 7

Material examined.

Paratype. [ France] • ♀ Pampelonne, Var ; 01–07 Aug. 1963; Orthocentrus orbitator , J. F. Aubert det. [handwritten] // paratype [red printed label]; MZLU -HYM 00065379 ; MZLU . Syntypes. [ France] • 2 ♀♀ (pinned on the same pin); Pampelonne, Var ; 02 Aug. 1963; Orthocentrus orbitator Type, J. F. Aubert det. [handwritten] // type [red printed label] // labelled as syntypes 27 & 28 / 52 (42) by S. Klopfstein, 2009; GBIFCH 00905806 ; MZL .

Additional material.

Israel • 1 ♀; Haifa; 21 July 2006; S. Simutnik leg.; SIZK . Italy • 1 ♀; Toscana, Is. Elba ; 21 Sep. – 23 Oct. 2001; Malaise trap; FDG ; • 1 ♀; Toscana, Siena ; 23–26 Oct. 2012; pan trap DI 34 / 4; FDG ; • 1 ♂; Sicilia, Catania, Monte Etna, Tremestieri Etneo ; 25 Mar. 1993; G. Turrisi leg.; FDG . Norway • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; TRY, Senja, Storholtet ; 69.18868N, 17.37885E; 07 July – 07 Aug. 2023; I. Birkeland leg; Malaise trap; SIZK; 1 ♀ GoogleMaps ; Gammelsætra ; 69.17051N, 17.38051E; 1–31 July 2023; I. Birkeland leg.; Malaise trap; SIZK GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀; Første Velta ; 69.20305N, 17.38824E; 1–31 Aug. 2023; I. Birkeland leg; Malaise trap; SIZK GoogleMaps . Spain • 2 ♂♂; P. N. Cabañeros ( C. Real), Viñuelas ; 26 Mar. – 14 Apr. 2004; CIBIO leg.; Matorral [area with shrubs], TMo 1; CEUA ; • 1 ♀; idem, but 14 Apr. – 08 May 2004; CEUA ; • 1 ♀; Gargantilla ; 19 Mar. – 13 Apr. 2005; CIBIO leg.; Fresneda [ Fraxinus forest], TM 2; CEUA . Turkey • 1 ♂; Isparta, Gelincik Dağı ( IV. Bölge ); 03 July 2010; Malaise trap; SIZK . Ukraine • 1 ♀; Transcarpathian Region, Svydovets , 2–3 km NW of Kvasy; 48.1447N, 24.2708E; 750 m a. s. l.; 10 Aug. – 01 Sep. 2014; O. Varga leg.; trunk trap on dead Fagus sylvatica , beech forest; SIZK GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

Female. Face aciculate; eye glabrous (Fig. 7 D View Figure 7 ). Antenna with 24–26 flagellomeres, first flagellomere 1.6–1.7 × as long as wide (Fig. 7 C View Figure 7 ). Vertex yellow or ivory along inner orbits (Fig. 7 D, F View Figure 7 ). Mesosoma black except narrowly yellow on propleuron, and along upper and lower margins of pronotum (Fig. 7 A View Figure 7 ). Fore wing with vein 3 rs-m present, areolet petiolate; hind wing with nervellus intercepted below the middle (Fig. 7 A View Figure 7 ). First metasomal tergite 1.5–1.6 × as long as posterior width, granulate, with lateromedian carinae weak to indistinct; second tergite 1.2 × as long as posterior width, with a weak subapical transverse furrow, granulate (Fig.); third tergite weakly granulate on anterior 0.5.

Male. Resembles female, but has more abundant yellow on the head, pronotum and mesoscutum; shorter antenna with 24–27 flagellomeres with the first flagellomere 3.0–3.1 × as long as wide (Fig. 7 B, E, G, I View Figure 7 ).

Distribution.

Western Palaearctic ( Yu et al. 2016), first records for Israel, Italy, Turkey, and Ukraine.