The subfamily Rhyssinae Morley, 1913 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in the collections of the Moravian Museum, Brno

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1 ISSN Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 93: , 2008 The subfamily Rhyssinae Morley, 1913 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in the collections of the Moravian Museum, Brno KAMIL HOLÝ Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507, CZ Praha 6; HOLÝ K. 2008: The subfamily Rhyssinae Morley, 1913 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in the collections of the Moravian Museum, Brno. Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 93: In total 125 specimens of six species [Megarhyssa rixator (Schellenberg, 1802), Megarhyssa superba (Schrank, 1781), Megarhyssa vagatoria (Fabricius, 1793), Rhyssa amoena Gravenhorst, 1829, Rhyssa persuasoria (Linnaeus, 1758) and Rhyssella obliterata (Gravenhorst, 1829)] deposited in the collection of the Moravian Museum, Brno are revised. M. vagatoria is a new species for the Czech Republic, M. rixator and M. superba are new species for Moravia and R. amoena is a new species for Bohemia and Slovakia. Key words. Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Rhyssinae, Megarhyssa, Rhyssa, Rhyssella, Central Europe, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic; first records Introduction Intensive research into the family Ichneumonidae has been undertaken by only two researchers in the territory of the former Czechoslovakia. František Gregor sen. collected material and published articles in the first half of the 20th century and Josef Šedivý continued up to and beyond the turn of the 20th century. Ichneumonologist Radoslav Obrtel was very active in the 1940 s and 1950 s, while Kolubajiv studied the importance of ichneumonids as parasitoids of forest insect pests around the mid-20th century. Faunistic data on members of this very large family appeared only very sporadically and publications tended to concentrate on information about rare or outstanding species. F. Gregor s plans for a preliminary overview of the Ichneumonidae were brought to an untimely end when he perished in the death camp of Mathausen in ŠEDIVÝ (1956, 1958, 1963) carried the torch of research forward and compiled a preliminary overview of selected subfamilies. ŠEDIVÝ (1989) also published the first complete checklist of the family Ichneumonidae of the area once known as Czechoslovakia. A major part of the collection of Ichneumonidae in the Moravian Museum, Brno has not yet been studied in detail. Only Slavíèek s collection is systematically arranged, while the remainder of the specimens are merely sorted into boxes, by collector. Knowledge of the biology and ecology of the Ichneumonidae is rather sparse, although the distribution of the family in Europe is better known. The Megarhyssa species are rare or only locally abundant in north, west and Central Europe. M. rixator is a parasitoid of Sirex and Urocerus species (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) in coniferous trees, while the remainder of European species are parasitoids of Tremex species (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) in broadleaved trees (HORSTMANN 1998). 97

2 K. HOLÝ R. amoena and R. persuasoria are larval parasitoids of Siricidae (Hymenoptera) and Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) and R. obliterata is a parasitoid of Xiphydria species (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae) and Saperda scalaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) (YU et al. 2005) Material and methods All European specimens of the subfamily Rhyssinae in the collection of the Moravian museum were revised for presentation in this article. One specimen from Armenia (Bjurekan, 2.vi.1973, 1 Svozil, A.) belongs to the genus Megarhyssa and does not therefore appear here. The nomenclature follows ZWAKHALS (2007). Determination followed the works of HORSTMANN (1998, 2002) and KASPARYAN et al. (1981). Faunistic data are listed in order: country (bold), locality (underline), code number in parentheses referring to the Central European grid for mapping flora and fauna (NOVÁK 1989, PRUNER & MÍKA 1996), date of collection, number and sex of specimens and abbreviation for collector. Unclear locality. Kralice nad Oslavou (on the label only Moravia - Kralice): There are two places known as Kralice in Moravia: Kralice nad Oslavou (South Moravia) and Kralice na Hané (Central Moravia). Kralice nad Oslavou is most probably what is meant, because it lies close to the village of Senorady where J. Matoušek very often collected insects. Praha-Komoøany (on the label only Komoøany): There are three places known as Komoøany in the Czech Republic one in North Bohemia, another in Central Moravia and the last is now part of Prague (Central Bohemia). Koèmíd collected much of his material in the vicinity of Prague [Praha]-Komoøany, so this is most probably the correct locality. Slovakia - Malé Kosíky (= Malé Kosíhy?). There are two places known as Malé Kosíhy in Slovakia. Both are in southern Slovakia and it remains unclear which is correct. All specimens from the Slavíèek collection are without locality; only Moravia and a date are written on the labels. Nevertheless, most of the materials collected probably originate from Central Moravia, where he worked as a teacher (Litovel, Bouzov, Konice) (KOLEŠKA 1993). A few specimens from the same collection are without a label or feature only a determination label. These are also probably from the same localities (MALENOVSKÝ, pers. com). Abbreviations An Karel Absolon Ck Miroslav Èapek Cu collector unknown Hk Alois Honìk Kd Koèmíd Kk Ladislav Krejcárek Kc Miroslav Kocourek Lr Pavel Lauterer Lc Leontoviè Mc Jan Macek Mk Jaroslav Matoušek Mr František Matzenauer MMB Moravian Museum, Brno NNR National Nature Reserve Nl František Netopil Ol Radoslav Obrtel Ok Jaroslav Olejníèek Pn Jaroslav Pelikán Sk Samšiòák Sa Jaroslav Sekera Sl Jan Slavíèek St Jaroslav L. Stehlík Tk Boleslav Tomšík 98

3 Rhyssinae (Ichneumonidae) in the Moravian Museum List of species Megarhyssa rixator (Schellenberg, 1802) Material examined. Moravia: Vranov u Brna-Útìchov (6765), 1.vi.1996, 7, Lr. Austria: Setzberg, 4.vii.1890, 1, Krchb. (= Kriechbaumer?). Specimens without label: 1 from the Slavíèek collection probably Central Moravia Note. M. rixator is distributed over all of Europe except the south (YU et al. 2005). In the Czech Republic it is known from Bohemia (ŠEDIVÝ 1989). In the MMB collection are 7 males and probably 1 female (from the Slavíèek collection) from Moravia and 1 female from Austria. New species for Moravia. Megarhyssa superba (Schrank, 1781) Material examined. Bohemia: Praha-Chuchle (5952), 24.viii.1958, 1, 1, Mc. Moravia: Pouzdøany-úvoz ke stepi (7065), 18.v.1997, 1, Lr. Note. M. superba has a European and eastern Palaearctic distribution (YU et al. 2005). In the Czech Republic it is known from Bohemia (ŠEDIVÝ 1989). In the MMB collection are 1 male and 1 female from Bohemia and 1 female from Moravia. New species for Moravia. Megarhyssa vagatoria (Fabricius, 1793) Material examined. Bohemia: Praha-Chuchle (5952), vi.1958, 1, Mc; 21.vi.1958, 1, 1, Mc. Note. M. vagatoria is known from Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Romania (HORSTMANN 1998) and Poland (KAŽMIERCZAK 2004) only. In the MMB collection are 1 male and 2 females from Bohemia. New species for the Czech Republic. Rhyssa amoena Gravenhorst, 1829 Material examined. Bohemia: Železná Ruda (6845), viii.1951, 1, Kd. Moravia: Heømanovice ( ), 20.vi.1946, 2, Ol Rejvíz-NNR Rejvíz (5769), 5.vii.1947, 3, 1, Ol; 8.vii.1947, 2, Ol; 13.vii.1947, 3, 1, Ol, on the label only Moravia (most probably Central Moravia), 7.viii.1902, 1, Sl. Slovakia: Turo (= Turie) (6878), 18.vii.1950, 2, Pn. Specimens without label: 1 from the Slavíèek collection probably Central Moravia. Note. R. amoena has a European and eastern Palaearctic distribution (YU et al. 2005). ŠEDIVÝ (1989) published this species from Moravia. In the MMB collection are 1 female from Bohemia, 8 males and 4 females (including 1 female without label from the Slavíèek collection) from Moravia and 2 females from Slovakia. New species for Bohemia and Slovakia. 99

4 K. HOLÝ Rhyssa persuasoria (Linnaeus, 1758) Material examined. Bohemia: Èelákovice (5854), v.1946, 1, 1, Mk; vi.1946, 1, Mk Èikvásky (5458), 2.vi.1940, 1, Cu Jindøichùv Hradec ( ), 8.vi.1941, 1, Tk Kytín (6151), viii.1957, 1, Mc Nepøívìc (5556), 14.v.1951, 2, Sk; Pec pod Snìžkou-Obøí dùl (5260), 24.vi.1947, 1, (the name of the collector unreadable) Praha-Komoøany (6052), v.1953, 1, Kd Semily ( ), 25.v.1974, 1, Hk Pøerov nad Labem ( ), vi.1947, 1, Mk Srbsko (6050), v.1948, 1, Kd Srní (6946), vi.1952, 1, Kd Strnady-on the window (6052), xii.1955, 1, Lc (this datum is unreal the specimen was probably hatched from a wood sample). Moravia: Babice nad Svitavou (6766), 27.v.1931, 2, Cu Brno-v gymnáziu ( ), 25.v.1949, 1, Cu Brno-Øeèkovice (6765), 13.vi.1948, 4, Cu Freiwaldau (= Jeseník) (5769), (without date of collection), 1, Mr Fryšták-pøehrada (6772), 21.v.1970, 1, Kk Heømanovice ( ), 20.vi.1946, 2, 5, Ol Horní Lipová (5768), vii.1946, 1, 4, Mk Kouty nad Desnou ( ), 29.vii.1947, 1, Ol Kralice nad Oslavou ( ), vii.1947, 1, Mk Krásná-Visalaje (6476), 2.vii.1950, 2, Ol Námìšť nad Oslavou ( ), 21.v.1950, 5, Ol Nepøívazy (Military area Libavá) (6370), vii.1952, 3, 2, Ol Nesovice (6868), 12.vii.1952, 1, Nl Rejvíz-NNR Rejvíz (5769), 21.vi.1946, 7, 3, Ol; 5.vii , 1, Ol; 8.vii.1947, 2, Ol; 25.vii.1947, 1, Ol; on the label only Moravia (most probably Central Moravia), 24.v.1907, 4, Sl; 15.viii.1916, 1, Sl the name of locality is illegible, vi.1958, 4, 1, Kc. Slovakia: Banská Štiavnica (7579), vi.1955, 1, Ck Kozel u Žiliny (6878), 17.vii.1950, 1, Pn Kuty-Prad. (7268), vi.1946, 1, Sa Podbanské-NNR Tichá dolina (6885), without datum, 1, St Vysoké Tatry mountain, 20.vi.1946, 1, Sa; 28.vii.1948, 1, Cu. Austria: Badgastein, 30.viii.1931, 1, An. Locality not found (Slovakia or Moravia): HB (= Havlíèkùv Brod?), without date of collection, 1, Cu. Specimens without label: 1, 4 (4 from the Slavíèek collection probably Central Moravia). Note. R. persuasoria is widely distributed in the Holarctic and Oriental regions (YU et al. 2005) and is known from Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia (ŠEDIVÝ 1989). Altogether 90 specimens of this species are represented in the MMB collection; 8 males and 7 females from Bohemia, 36 males and 30 females from Moravia, 2 males and 4 females from Slovakia, 1 female from Austria and 1 male and 1 female of unclear locality. Rhyssella obliterata (Gravenhorst, 1829) Material examined. Moravia: Prakšice (6971), vii.1973, 1, Kk Pouzdøany (7065), 14.ix.1947, 1, Ol. Slovakia: Malé Kosíky (= Malé Kosíhy?), 6.vi.1967, 1, Ok. Note. R. obliterata has a European distribution (YU et al. 2005) and is known from Bohemia (ZEMAN & MOCEK 2006), Moravia and Slovakia (ŠEDIVÝ 1989). In the MMB collection are 2 females from Moravia and 1 female from Slovakia. Conclusions Three genera and nine species of Rhyssinae are known from Europe (ZWAKHALS 2007). All the genera are known from the Czech Republic (CZ) and Slovakia (SK). Seven species live in the area of the Czech Republic (ŠEDIVÝ 1989, 1995, ZEMAN & MOCEK 2006), with four species in Slovakia (ŠEDIVÝ 1989). The material of subfamily Rhyssinae evaluated from the collection of the Moravian Museum Brno contains 125 specimens belonging to 6 species (M. rixator, M. superba, M. vagatoria, R. amoena, R. persuasoria 100

5 Rhyssinae (Ichneumonidae) in the Moravian Museum and R. obliterata). Six species records originate from CZ (five from Moravia, four from Bohemia) and three of them from SK. The major part of the collection originates in Moravia, mainly from North Moravia (78 specimens, including all the material from the Slavíèek collection), fewer from Bohemia (34 specimens, mainly from Central Bohemia) and Slovakia (8 specimens). Two specimens are from Austria and three specimens are inadequately labeled. Altogether more than 20 collectors have collected material of this subfamily, deposited in 11 collections, with the bulk of the specimens added by R. Obrtel. Acknowledgements I would like to thank Igor Malenovský (Moravian Museum, Brno) for access to the collections and useful information about particular collections and collectors. This work was supported by Ministry of Agriculture grant ref. MZE References GREGOR F. 1928: Pøíspìvek k poznání èeskoslovenských lumkù. Sborník Klubu pøírodovìdeckého v Brnì za rok : 1 11 (in Czech, German summary). HORSTMANN K. 1998: Die europäischen Arten von Megarhyssa ASHMEAD, 1900 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Entomofauna 19(22): HORSTMANN K. 2002: Revisionen von Schlupfwespen-Arten VI (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Mitteilungen Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 92: KASPARYAN D. R. et al. 1981: Ichneumonidae. In: MEDVEDEV G. S. (ed.): Opredelitel nasekomykh evropeiskoi chasti SSSR. Tom 3. Nauka, 688 pp (in Russian). KAŽMIERCZAK T. 2004: Checklist of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) of Poland. Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities, Forestry 7(2): KOLEŠKA Z. 1993: Seznam biografií èeskoslovenských entomologù (entomologové nežijící) 14. pokraèování. Klapalekiana 29 (Suppl.): (in Czech). NOVÁK I. 1989: Seznam lokalit a jejich kódù pro síťové mapování entomofauny Èeskoslovenska. [List of localities and their codes for grid mapping of entomofauna in Czechoslovakia.] Zprávy èeskoslovenské spoleènosti entomologické pøi ÈSAV 25: 3 84 (in Czech). PRUNER L. & MÍKA P. 1996: Seznam obcí a jejich èástí v Èeské republice s èísly mapových polí pro síťové mapování fauny. List of settlements in the Czech republic with associated map field codes for faunistic grid mapping systém. Klapalekiana 32(Suppl.): (in Czech, English summary). ŠEDIVÝ J. 1956: Pøíspìvek k poznání lumù z tribù Helwigiini, Anomalonini a Therionini v ÈSR. (A contribution to the knowledge of the Ichneumon-flies of the tribes Helwigiini, Anomalonini and Therionini in Czechoslovakia). Acta faunistica entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 1: (in Czech, Englis summary). ŠEDIVÝ J. 1958: Funistische und taxonomische Bemerkungen zur Ichneumoniden ÈSR. Pimplinae I. Acta faunistica entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 3: ŠEDIVÝ J. 1963: Faunistische und taxonomische Bemerkungen zu den Ichneumoniden der Tschechoslowake. Pimplinae II. Acta faun. ent. Mus. Nat. Pragae 9: ŠEDIVÝ J. 1989: Ichneumonidae. In: ŠEDIVÝ J. (ed.): Enumeration insectorum Bohemoslovakiae (Check list of Czechoslovak insects) III (Hymenoptera). Acta faun. ent. Mus. Nat. Pragae 19: ŠEDIVÝ J. 1995: Ichneumonidae. In: ROZKOŠNÝ R. & VAÒHARA J. (eds): Terrestrial Invertebrates of the Pálava Biosphere Reserve of UNESCO II. Folia Fac. Sci. Nat. Univ. Nasarykianae Brunnensis. Biologia 93:

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7 Rhyssinae (Ichneumonidae) in the Moravian Museum Fig Distribution of Rhyssinae from the MMB collection in the Czech and Slovak Republics. 1 Megarhyssa rixator; 2 M. superba; 3 M. vagatoria; 4 Rhyssa amoena; 5 R. persuasoria; 6 Rhyssella obliterata. 103