Diplazon pectoratorius (Thunberg, 1824), (a diplazontine ichneumon)

29 Aug 2015 at OSGR: SE96 in South-east Yorks, England

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Record Summary	Male, among garden flowers
Found as	Male imago
Date	29 August 2015
OS grid ref	OSGR: SE96
Lat/Lon	54° 10’ N, 0° 40’ W
Vice County	South-east Yorks, VC no: 61
Country	England
Voucher	29 Aug 2015[E] (Please quote this in any queries about this record)

Notes: Hindwing with 3 basal hamuli.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

Beirne, B.P., 1941. British species of Diplazonini (Bassini auctt.) with a study of the genital and post genital abdominal sclerites in the male (Hym.: Ichneum) Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 91 Part 13: 661-712.
Fitton, M.G. & Rotheray, M.E., 1982. A key to the European genera of Diplazontine ichneumon-flies with notes on the British fauna Systematic Entomology 7: 311-320.
Klopfstein, S., 2014. Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Zootaxa Vol 3801 (1): 1-143.

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Diplazon pectoratorius (Thunberg, 1824), (a diplazontine ichneumon)

29 Aug 2015 at OSGR: SE96 in South-east Yorks, England

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