Aptesis flagitator (Rossius, 1794), (a cryptine ichneumon)


14 Jun 2024 at OSGR: SU01 in South Wilts, England

Record SummaryMale, visiting Hogweed
Found asMale imago
Date14 June 2024
Capture methodnetted
Associated organismHeracleum sphondylium
OS grid refOSGR: SU01
Lat/Lon50° 60’ N, 1° 60’ W
Vice CountySouth Wilts, VC no: 8
CountryEngland
Voucher14 Jun 2024[T]
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Notes:

Body length: 6.1mm; flagellomeres: 25+25, brown tyloids on F10-15, the two on F11-12 being large and fat.

Scape white below, face with two small white spots, facial orbits broadly white, labrum white, mandible white at base.

Pronotal collar with two white spots, tegula, scutellum and post-scutellum white; fore coxae and all trochantelli white-marked; tibial spurs white.

Propodeum with long dentiparal teeth.

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