Sussaba pulchella
Creators: name: Klopfstein, Seraina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Sussaba
Sussaba pulchella

description: Sussaba pulchella (Holmgren 1858, Bassus)
Bassus elongatus Provancher 1874
Bassus monticola Vollenhoven 1880
Promethus laticarpus Thomson 1890
Otoblastus erodens Davis 1897
Promethes unicinctus Ashmead 1902
Promethes albicoxis Ashmead 1906 (nomen nudum)
Promethes ruthei Roman 1931
Diagnosis. Fore wing length 3.7–4.5 mm. Antenna in females with 20–22 flagellomeres, with ventral area of median to apical flagellomeres with conspicuous areas bearing a short velvety pile and lacking multiporous plate sensilla; in males with 21–24 flagellomeres, with two-coloured tyloids on flagellomeres 5/6 to 10/11. Face mainly smooth and shining, impunctate, with some irregular sculpture centrally and along inner orbits. Mesoscutum with central area coriaceous, weakly punctate. Mesopleuron entirely smooth and shining, impunctate, at most with some irregular sculpture on lower half. Hind coxa with outer hind surface mostly smooth and shining, without any sculpture apart from around seta roots. Propodeum with a full set of carinae enclosing basal, lateral and petiolar areas, the areas with rugose sculpture. Metasoma evenly tapered towards apex, tergite 1 1.3–1.6 times longer than wide in female, 1.4–1.8 times in males.
Colouration of females. Antenna dark brown, sometimes paler below. Head and mesosoma black, face often with a yellow central face patch, clypeus black, yellow on mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, usually at least small shoulder mark, upper mesepimeron; scutellum black. Legs orange, coxae black, fore coxa with a yellow apex, trochanters all marked with black; femora orange, marked with black below; hind tibia and tarsus orange to brown. Metasoma variously marked with orange, usually at least on hind margin of tergite 2 and entire tergite 3; this colouration can be darkened, especially in high altitude or northern specimens.
Colouration of males. As in females but with yellow ventrally on scape and pedicel, usually entire antenna ventrally, entire face, and epicnemium. Fore and mid coxae only black at extreme base, hind coxa with a yellow apex. Metasoma sometimes as in females but usually with third tergite black centrally with two yellow spots on anterolateral corners and orange hind margin and tergites 4 and 5 similarly coloured or black.
Material examined. Lectotype of Bassus pulchella Holmgren: Sweden, Lapland, leg. Boheman. 1♀, at NRM. Lectotype and paralectotype of Promethus laticarpus Thomson: Sweden, Skåne, Lund. 1♂, 1♀, at ZIL.
Bulgaria (1), Finland (5), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Iceland (1), Norway (2), Russia (1), Sweden (>200), Switzerland (>200), United Kingdom (>100).
Distribution. Holarctic and Oriental.
Figures. Metasoma ♀ (Fig. 23 D), habitus (Fig. 34 B), male terminal sclerites (Fig. 38 B).
description: Published as part of Klopfstein, Seraina, 2014, Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 1-143 in Zootaxa 3801 (1) on pages 91-92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3801.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/249944