Cratichneumon culex (Muller, 1776), (an ichneumon wasp)


18 May 2020 at OSGR: ST71 in Dorset, England

Record Summary2 males, around fallen sticks in sunny broadleaved woodland
Found asMale imago
Date18 May 2020
Habitat featurefallen sticks
OS grid refOSGR: ST71
Lat/Lon50° 50’ N, 2° 20’ W
Vice CountyDorset, VC no: 9
CountryEngland
Voucher18 May 2020[H]
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Notes:

Length 8mm; flagellomeres: 33+33, tyloids on fla 2-21, linear, progressively smaller; genal carina meeting hypostomal carina away from mandible base.

Body completely black apart from pale tip of scutellum; white: scape (ventral surface), face, clypeus, labrum and mandibles; single small white spots on frontal and outer orbits; flagellum ventrally brownish-yellow.

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