Orthocentrus canariensis Hellén, 1949

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.98.163947

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17295837

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scientific name

Orthocentrus canariensis Hellén, 1949
status

 

Orthocentrus canariensis Hellén, 1949 View in CoL

Fig. 3 View Figure 3

Material examined.

Paratype. [ Spain] • ♀; Canary Islands, Tenerife, Agua Garcia ; R. Frey [? leg.]; labelled as paratype by J. Aubert; 4994; GBIFCH 00894863 ; MZL .

Diagnosis.

Female. Face aciculate in upper half, shiny; eye glabrous (Fig. 3 E View Figure 3 ). Antenna with 26 flagellomeres, first flagellomere 2.5 × as long as wide (Fig. 3 F View Figure 3 ). Frons entirely ivory except for interocellar area (Fig. 3 F View Figure 3 ). Mesosoma largely marked with orange and yellow; mesoscutum and scutellum orange, yellow along notauli and on lateral margins (Fig. 3 A, B View Figure 3 ). Fore wing with vein 3 rs-m present, but partly unpigmented, areolet petiolate (Fig. 3 C View Figure 3 ); hind wing with nervellus intercepted below the middle (Fig. 3 A View Figure 3 ). First metasomal tergite 1.8 × as long as posterior width, weakly granulate, with lateromedian longitudinal carinae indistinct; second tergite 1.2 × as long as posterior width, with a weak subapical transverse furrow, weakly granulate; third tergite weakly granulate on anterior 0.2 (Fig. 3 A, G View Figure 3 ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

Spain: currently known from two localities on Tenerife ( Hellén 1949).

MZL

Musee Zoologique