Scopesis rubrotincta ( SCHMIEDEKNECHT , 1914)

Riedel, Matthias, H, Andres & Schmidt, Stefan, 2024, Revision of the Palaearctic species of Scopesis FÖRSTER (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 56 (1), pp. 201-252 : 218-219

Scopesis rubrotincta ( SCHMIEDEKNECHT, 1914) (figs 9, 27, 43, 63, 83, 104)

Original: Scopesus rubrotinctus SCHMIEDEKNECHT, 1914: 2929, ♀.

Lectotype: (♀) ♀; det. Schmiedekn.; Scopesis rubrotinctus SCHMDKN. (Vienna), type not examined.

D e s c r i p t i o n: ♀. Body length 7.0–9.0 mm. Flagellum with 33–35 segments; 1 st flagellar segment 5.0× as long as wide and 1.8–1.9× as long as 2 nd segment; 2 nd segment 2.3–2.4×, 3 rd segment 2.1–2.2× and preapical segment 1.8× longer than wide. Temple distinctly and roundly narrowed behind eye. OED 1.3–1.5× ocellar diameter. Face granulated, with fine superficial punctures. Clypeus moderately convex, not bulging medially, with fine sparse punctures and some long and erected setae, shining, with rather distinct flat extensions laterally; apical margin slightly concave. Mandibular teeth equal or lower tooth slightly larger than upper tooth. MI 0.3–0.4.

Mesoscutum granulate, with superficial punctures, dull. Notaulus impressed in frontal 0.3. Mesopleuron finely granulate, with superficial punctures, ± shining; dorsally sometimes with few superficial striae. Speculum with microsculpture, shining. Area superomedia without lateral carina. Area petiolaris with short lateral carina, widely open medially. Lateral longitudinal and pleural carinae of propodeum often ± obsolete. Hind femur 3.9–4.3× as long as wide. Inner apical spur of hind tibia 0.62× as long as hind metatarsus. Vein 2rs-m 0.5–0.7× as long as vein M between 2rs-m and 2m-cu. Vein 1cu- a interstitial. Nervellus of hind wing vertical, intercepted in its apical 0.6. 1 st tergite 1.5– 1.7× as long as wide, without latero-median carina. 2 nd tergite 1.3× as wide as long.

Color: black. Flagellum reddish, infuscate basally. Palps, mandible except teeth, clypeus, often ventral spot at scape, spot on scutellum and postscutellum red. Tegula brown. 1 st tergite except base and 2 nd to 4 th or 5 th tergites entirely red. Coxae, trochanters and trochantelli black; legs red; hind tibia reddish, infuscate in apical 0.3; hind tarsomeres black, with ± paler bases. Pterostigma ochreous.

♁. Body length 8.5–10.0 mm. Flagellum with 34–35 segments; 1 st flagellar segment 5.0– 5.2× as long as wide and 1.7–1.8× as long as 2 nd segment; 2 nd segment 2.7× and 3 rd segment 2.4× as long as wide. OED 1.1–1.4× ocellar diameter. MI 0.2–0.3. Mesopleuron with smoothened superficial structure, superficially punctate and granulate, weakly striate dorsally, strongly shining. Area superomedia sometimes with incomplete weak lateral carina. Area petiolaris with short lateral carina, widely open medially. Hind femur 3.8–4.0× as long as wide. 1 st tergite 1.9–2.0× as long as wide. 2 nd tergite about as long as wide.

Color: black. Flagellum reddish or brown, ± infuscate basally. Palps, mandible except teeth, clypeus, face, lower 1/2 of frontal orbit, ventral spots on scape and pedicel, collar, anterolateral spot on mesoscutum, hind edge of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, spot on mesosternum, spot on scutellum and postscutellum, fore and mid coxae largely, fore and mid trochanters and trochantelli and spot on hind trochantellus yellow. Legs otherwise red; hind tibia reddish-yellow, infuscate in apical 0.4; hind tarsus black. Sometimes postpetiolus apically and 2 nd to 4 th tergites entirely red. Pterostigma ochreous or chestnut-brown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Transpalaearctic, studied material from Bulgaria *, Germany, Norway *, Poland and East Siberia* (Irkutsk environment).