Lymantrichneumon disparis (Poda, 1761)

Lymantrichneumon disparis (Poda, 1761) View in CoL

Notes

Easily recognised, although specimens with a darker mesosoma are not uncommon and could be confusing. In several countries, the hibernation records (usually below bark) strongly exceed the number of observations during the rest of the year. Exceptionally, some records are known from buildings, caves (e. g. Schmitz (1909)) and cellars. It has also been found at more atypical structures, such as behind protective foil or in an empty beehive (Observation. org).

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Austria (14), Belgium (199), Croatia (1) *, Czechia (7) *, France (40), Germany (33), Hungary (7), Italy (14) *, Latvia (1) *, Lithuania (2), Poland (13), Romania (11), Russia (5), Serbia (1), Slovakia (1) *, Spain (4) *, Sweden (2) **, the Netherlands (49), Ukraine (13) *, United Kingdom (8) *.

First record: Ca. 1895 ( Berthoumieu (1895 a), France).

Hibernacula: B (3), C (7), DT (806), DTCL (15), M (7), O (4), U (16).

Sources: Berthoumieu (1895 a) [ Ichneumon disparis Poda ], Athimus (1901 b) [ I. disparis Poda ], Schmitz (1909) [ I. disparis Poda ], Pfeffer (1913) [ I. disparis Poda ], Seyrig (1923) [ Barichneumon disparis Poda ], Lauterborn (1926) [ I. disparis Poda ], Seyrig 1926 b [ Protichneumon disparis Poda ], Constantineanu (1929 b) and Constantineanu (1959) [ P. disparis Poda ], Heinrich (1930) [ P. disparis Poda ], Leclercq (1953) [ P. disparis Poda ], Györfi (1963) [ P. disparis Poda ], Rasnitsyn (1964) [ P. disparis Poda ], Constantineanu (1969) [ Melanichneumon disparis Poda ], Valemberg (1976 b) and Valemberg (1982) [ I. & P. disparis Poda ], Jonaitis (1982), Bauer (1984), Hilpert (1989), Hinz and Kreissl (1992) and Hinz and Kreissl (1993), Sebald et al. (2001), Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005), Gokhman and Mikhailenko (2008), Valemberg and Vago (2013), Lungu-Constantineanu and Constantineanu (2014), Pénigot (2020), Verheyde and Quicke (2022), Vesović et al. (2024); Unpublished: Coll. RBINS, Dabasdati, iNaturalist, Insecte. org, iRecord, Naturgucker, Observation. org, Pers. obs.

Also mentioned in: Morley (1903) [ P. disparis Poda ].