Euceros latitarsus BARRON 1978

Riedel, Matthias, 2025, Notes on some Asian species of Euceros GRAVENHORST, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Eucerotinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 57 (1), pp. 343-349 : 347-348

Euceros latitarsus BARRON 1978

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: China: Yunnan, Gongshan 10 km NW, N 27.798° E 98.583°, 2100 m,

1♀ 10.VI.2009, leg. Blank, Liston, Taeger (SDEI). D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 8.5 mm. Flagellum with 40 segments, 1st flagellar segment 4.0× as long as wide. Distance between lateral ocellus and eye 2.1× ocellar diameter. Hind femur 5.1× as long as wide. Hind metatarsus slightly flattened. 1 st tergite 1.2× as wide as long, latero-median carina in its basal 1/3. Structure otherwise as described by BARRON (1978: 348-350) and KASPARYAN & TOLKANITZ (1999: 342).

Color. Black. Flagellum black, basal 12 flagellar segments brownish. Palps, mandible except teeth, apical margin of clypeus, facial orbit and transverse median band on face, gena and upper outer orbit cream-yellow. Mesosoma black; ventral and hind edges of pronotum, spot on tegula, subtegular ridge, antero-median hook-shaped spot and posterior paramedian stripe on mesoscutum, longitudinal band on ventral mesopleuron, apical half of metapleuron, scutellum except black baso-median spot and postscutellum cream-yellow. Apical area of propodeum reddish. Tergites black; 1 st tergite basally and apically cream-yellow, 2 nd to 7 th tergites with apical cream-yellow bands (wider laterally). Legs mainly reddish-yellow; fore and mid coxae and trochanters cream-yellow; hind trochanter yellow, with brown spot; hind tibia black, narrowly yellowish at base; hind tarsus black, 4 th hind tarsomere ivory. Wings hyaline, pterostigma brown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Known from India (Himalaya region), new record for China.