Introduction

Materials and methods

Most of the records in the present paper originate from sampling efforts in central and north-eastern Italy (Fig. 1) aimed at investigating parasitoid community composition in fragmented landscapes (Di Giovanni et al. 2014, Inclán et al. 2014). The field sampling in north-eastern Italy was carried out in 2013 using Malaise traps (Omnes Artes s. a. s.) in the understory of semi-natural and artificial oak-hornbeam forests of the eastern Po Plain (Fig. 2). Some further records stem from canopy sampling with Malaise traps, carried out in 2008 in the natural reserve of Bosco della Fontana (Lombardy; see Di Giovanni et al. 2014). The field sampling in central Italy (Tuscany) was conducted in 2012 using yellow pan traps in fragments of semi-natural grasslands derived from eroded claystones (Fig. 3; see Inclán et al. 2014). Additional records come from the private collection of the first author (with the exception of one specimen from DAFNAE and one from ZSM) and from the Sardinian CONECOFOR (Forest Ecosystem Control) sampling project, carried out by Italian State Forestry Service between 2003 and 2006 (see Nardi et al. 2011).

Figure 1.  

Italian administrative regions.

Figure 2.  

Malaise trap in an oak-hornbeam forest in north-eastern Italy.

Figure 3.  

Field sampling with yellow pan traps in Tuscany claystones (courtesy of D. Inclán).

All taxa are listed in alphabetical order. The assignment of species to higher taxa follows the Catalogue of World Ichneumonidae (Yu et al. 2012). Distributional notes, with minor changes, follow the Catalogue of World Ichneumonidae (Yu et al. 2012) and the Fauna Europaea website (Achterberg and Zwakhals 2004).

The following references were used to the identification of most of the species listed in the present paper. It is not an exhaustive list, as many genera still need a revision and the identification to species level often requires the comparison with type material in collections: Varga (2013) (Acaenitinae); Kasparyan (1990) (Adelognathinae); Kuslitzky (1973), Aubert (1978) (Banchinae); Horstmann (2009) (Campopleginae); Gürbüz and Kolarov (2006) (Collyriinae); Donovan (1810), Förster (1871), Habermehl (1935), Horstmann (1983), Townes (1983), Horstmann (1990) (Cryptinae); Gravenhorst (1829), Bauer (1961), Kasparyan (1981), Hinz (1986), Hinz (1991), Hinz and Horstmann (1998), Kasparyan (2000), Kasparyan (2001), Kasparyan (2004), Kasparyan (2011), Reshchikov (2013), Kasparyan (2014) (Ctenopelmatinae); Kolarov (1997) (Diacritinae); Klopfstein (2014) (Diplazontinae); Aubert (1958), Aubert (1969), Kasparyan (1981), Selfa and Diller (1995), Selfa and Anento (1996), Tereshkin (2009), Diller and Shaw (2014) (Ichneumoninae); Kasparyan (1981) (Lycorininae); Schwenke (1999) (Mesochorinae); Aubert (1965) (Metopiinae); Broad (2010) (Orthocentrinae); Kolarov (1997), Zwakhals (2006), Fritzén and Shaw (2014) (Pimplinae); Oehlke (1966), Kolarov (1997) (Poemeniinae); Kasparyan (1973) (Tryphoninae).

The material is deposited in the following collections:

• DAFNAE: Dipartimento di Agronomia, Animali, Alimenti, Risorse Naturali e Ambiente in Padua, Italy
• MR: private collection of Matthias Riedel in Bad Fallingbostel, Germany
• MZUR: Museo di Zoologia, Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza” in Rome, Italy
• NRM: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden
• ZSM: Zoologische Staatssammlung in München, Germany

Taxon treatment

Baranisobas hibericus Heinrich, 1972

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1. country:
   Italy
   ; stateProvince:
   Tuscany
   ; verbatimLocality:
   Siena, Monteroni d'Arbia
   ; verbatimElevation:
   195 m
   ; verbatimLatitude:
   43°13'5.48"N
   ; verbatimLongitude:
   11°26'55.29"E
   ; samplingProtocol:
   yellow pan trap
   ; eventDate:
   02-05.V.2012
   ; individualCount:
   1
   ; sex:
   female
   ; recordedBy:
   D. J. Inclán
   ; identifiedBy:
   M. Riedel
   ; dateIdentified:
   2014
   ; institutionCode:
   MR
2. country:
   Italy
   ; stateProvince:
   Tuscany
   ; verbatimLocality:
   Siena, Monteroni d'Arbia
   ; verbatimElevation:
   195 m
   ; verbatimLatitude:
   43°13'5.48"N
   ; verbatimLongitude:
   11°26'55.29"E
   ; samplingProtocol:
   yellow pan trap
   ; eventDate:
   11-12.V.2012
   ; individualCount:
   1
   ; sex:
   female
   ; recordedBy:
   D. J. Inclán
   ; identifiedBy:
   M. Riedel
   ; dateIdentified:
   2014
   ; institutionCode:
   MR

Description

Male (from Heinrich 1972):

Mesoscutum with dense and rather coarse punctures, ground between punctures smooth and shiny. Margin of clypeus shiny. Malar space about ¾ the length of the base of mandible. Flagellum with short elliptical tyloids on flagellomere 7-16.

Colour: face and thorax mostly black; white are inner orbits, narrow stripe on outer orbits, central spot on face, scapus and flagellum ventrally, collar, upper hind margin of pronotum, subalar ridge, tegulae, scutellum and postscutellum. Metasoma black; postpetiolus, tergite 2 and 3, and basal part of tergite 4 red; tergite 6 with white spot, tergite 7 mostly white. Coxae, trochanters and legs black; coxae I and II with white spot, ventral side of tibiae I and II, femur I except the base and apex of femur II pale yellowish.

Female:

Body length 6-7 mm. Flagellum with 27-28 segments, slightly lanceolate. First flagellomere about 1.8 times longer than wide, widest flagellomeres about 1.2 times wider than long. Temples roundly narrowed behind eyes. Clypeus moderately convex. Head with coarse dense puncture, clypeus with scattered puncture.

Pronotum with a strong longitudinal ridge medially. Mesoscutum with coarse puncture and fine granulation, strongly shining. Mesopleurum with coarse puncture (slightly rugose-punctate apically), intervals smooth and shining, metapleurum with coarse puncture, shining. Scutellum slightly wider than long, with lateral carinae in the basal 0.5. Propodeum completely carinate, area superomedia hexagonal, about as long as wide. Hind coxa punctate, without scopa. Hind femur stout, about 3.3 times as long as wide.

Postpetiolus strongly widened, not differentiate and without dorsal carina, almost smooth and with very scattered puncture medially. Second tergite with strong transverse thyridia, each thyridium about 1.6 times wider than the thyridial interval. Tergites 2-3 with coarse puncture, shining, tergite 4 superficially punctate, following tergites smoothened.

Colour: mostly black. Flagellum with ivory ring on flagellomeres 7-11. Ivory are narrow stripe on frontal orbit, apical half of scutellum, narrow apical band on tergite 6 (one specimen with completely black tergite 6) and wide apical band on tergite 7. Tergites 1-3 red. Following tergites black, the fourth one more or less reddish laterally. Coxae and trochanteres black. Femora I-II reddish, more or less infuscate at bases. Tibiae and tarsi I-II reddish, yellowish-red on frontal side. Hind leg black, tibia III with red subbasal ring. Pterostigma black.

Diagnosis

The female of B. hibericus Heinrich is similar to B. ridibundus (Gravenhorst, 1829) but it differs in having a stouter first flagellomere, strongly shining mesoscutum with coarse punctation, and a stouter hind femur (Figs 4, 5​).

Figure 4.  

Baranisobas hibericus Heinrich, 1972, female habitus.

Figure 5.  

Baranisobas hibericus Heinrich, 1972, female, dorsal view.

Distribution

Previously known only from Portugal (Heinrich 1972​).

Notes

New for Italy.

Analysis

Discussion

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