Diodontus insidiosus Spooner 1938

• Main Authors: Olszewski, Piotr, Ljubomirov, Toshko, Wiśniowski, Bogdan, Kowalczyk, Jan Krzysztof, Krzyżyński, Maciej
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Crabronidae; Diodontus; Diodontus insidiosus; Alta; Kowalczyk; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6085299; https://zenodo.org/record/6085299

Diodontus insidiosus Spooner, 1938 (Figs 1, 8, 27, 29, 31) First record from Poland. Małopolska Upland: Pińczowskie Mts. (50 ° 28 ’ 29 ”N, 20 ° 24 ’ 1 ”E) 24 VII 2006 — 1 ♂ leg. B. Wiśniowski. The specimen was collected on the flower head of Senecio jacobea at the edge of xerothermic grassland. In Spain, the species was collected on flowers of Seseli tortuosum and Euphorbia serrata , also on the leaves of Populus nigra and Quercus ilex (Gayubo & Sanza 1986). The species prefers open, dry and sandy habitats (Macek et al. 2010). The species range includes mainly North and Central Europe (Lomholdt 1984). It is known from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland (Pulawski 2015). The species is morphologically similar to D. minutus which is one of the commonest species in Europe. Checking specimens of D. minutus in various entomological collections may reveal new records of D. insidiosus and bring new information about the occurrence of the species in the region. : Published as part of Olszewski, Piotr, Ljubomirov, Toshko, Wiśniowski, Bogdan, Kowalczyk, Jan Krzysztof & Krzyżyński, Maciej, 2016, New records of the genus Diodontus Curtis, 1834 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) from Bulgaria, Montenegro and Poland, with a key to Central and Eastern European species, pp. 164-172 in Zootaxa 4061 (2) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/261549 : {"references": ["Gayubo, S. F. & Sanza, F. (1986) Esfecidofauna de la margen derecha de la cuenca alta del Duero (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Acta Salmanticensia. Serie Varia, 74, 1 - 115.", "Macek, J., Straka, J., Bogusch, P., Dvorak, L., Bezdecka, P. & Tyrner, P. (2010) Hymenoptera (Chrysidoidea, Apoidea, Vespoidea) from the Czech Republic I., zahadlovi. Academia, Praha, 524 pp.", "Lomholdt, O. (1984) The Sphecidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 4. 2 nd Edition. E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press, Leiden, Copenhagen, 452 pp.", "Pulawski, W. (2015) Catalog of genera and species: Diodontus. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / entomology / entomology _ resources / hymenoptera / sphecidae / genera / Diodontus. pdf (accessed 17 January 2015)"]}