First comprehensive catalogue of hibernating Darwin wasps in the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)
Fons Verheyde, Augustijn De Ketelaere, Geir Ørsnes, William Pénigot, Malcolm Storey, Ika Österblad, Al Cameron, Gunnar Engan, Miroslav Fiala, Jonas Lutz, Maksym Parkhomenko, Vladimir E Gokhman, Wouter Dekoninck, Stijn Cooleman, Jan Mees · 2025
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Description
Fons Verheyde and co-authors catalog every Darwin wasp known to hibernate across the Western Palaearctic. Many of these parasitic wasps pass winter as free-living adults, a pause much like the winter sleep of some beetles and bees. No full list existed, so the team reviewed the records species by species.
They checked 439 species and confirmed winter diapause in 340 of them. Eighty-one stay unverified, and eighteen past claims were struck as errors. The final data set holds 7,443 records from 27,567 specimens gathered over more than two centuries. Twenty-nine species join the hibernator list for the first time. The authors warn against judging diapause from catch dates alone and urge care for the microhabitats where wasps winter.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fons Verheyde, Augustijn De Ketelaere, Geir Ørsnes, William Pénigot, Malcolm Storey, Ika Österblad, Al Cameron, Gunnar Engan, Miroslav Fiala, Jonas Lutz, Maksym Parkhomenko, Vladimir E Gokhman, Wouter Dekoninck, Stijn Cooleman, Jan Mees |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 274 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |