Aptesini (unidentified), (unidentified a tribe of cryptine ichneumons)


11 Sep 2024 at OSGR: SU01 in South Wilts, England

Record SummaryMale, swept off shady, leeward side of oak on windy day
Found asMale imago
Date11 September 2024
Capture methodswept
OS grid refOSGR: SU01
Lat/Lon50° 60’ N, 1° 60’ W
Vice CountySouth Wilts, VC no: 8
CountryEngland
Voucher11 Sep 2024[L]
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Notes:

Body length: 6mm; flagellomeres: 23+23, F2 L/B: 2.4, keeled black tyloids on F9-12.

White are: underside of scape (small spot), facial orbits broadly, labrum entirely, mandible bases, pronotal collar (small spots), extreme end of T6, end of T7 broadly centrally.

Keys to Pleolophus brachypterus but it isn’t this.

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