Ichneumon melanotis Holmgren, 1864

Ichneumon melanotis Holmgren, 1864 View in CoL

Notes

Very similar to darker forms of I. molitorius . The red forms can be confused with, for example, some varieties of I. albiger . The only distinctive differences between I. melanotis and I. molitorius are the width of the hindtarsus and the absence or presence of the scopa ( Hilpert 1992). As a consequence, ca. 15 records could not be included, although it is very likely the majority are I. melanotis . These records would contain new data for Denmark and the Netherlands.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Austria (5), Belarus (5), Belgium (10), France (9), Germany (10), Norway (4) *, Romania (3), Russia (2), Sweden (1), United Kingdom (2).

First record: Ca. 1850-1856 ( Holmgren (1864), Sweden).

Hibernacula: DT (64), DTCL (2), DV (3), LV (4), M (3), S (2), U (12).

Sources: Holmgren (1864), Tischbein (1873 b), Berthoumieu (1894), Meyer (1913) [ Ichneumon macrocerus Thoms. ], Pfeffer (1913), Pic (1916) and Pic (1917) [ I. macrocerus Thoms. ], Hancock (1923), Seyrig (1926 a) [ I. macrocerus Thoms. ], Constantineanu (1929 a), Habermehl (1929) [ I. molitorius var. melanotis Holmgr. ], Heinrich (1949 a) [ Pterocormus melanotis Holmgr. ] and Heinrich (1951), Constantineanu (1959) [ I. molitorius var. discolor Berth. ], Valemberg and Vago (1974 b) [ I. molitorius var. discolor Berth. ], Valemberg (1976 a) / Valemberg (1976 b) and Valemberg (1982) [ I. molitorius var. discolor Bert. ], Bauer (1984), Gokhman (1990 b), Hinz and Kreissl (1992) and Hinz and Kreissl (1993), Sebald et al. (2001), Schmidt and Zmudzinski (2005), Gokhman (2014), Verheyde and Quicke (2022); Unpublished: Artsobservasjoner, Coll. RBINS, GBIF, Pers. obs., Tereshkin (2014).

Also mentioned in: Morley (1903), Rasnitsyn (1964) [ I. melanotus Holm. ], Hinz (1991), Tereshkin (2002), Gokhman (2003).