Rhopalicus tutela (Walker, 1836)

Distribution in Russia

Kaliningrad Prov., Karelia, Leningrad, Tver, Vologda, Moscow, Tula and Bryansk provinces, Krasnoyarsk and Primorskii territories, Sakhalinskaya Prov.

Distribution in the world

Great Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, China, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, USA.

Biology

A larval ectoparasitoid of the bark beetles Tomicus minor (Hart.), T. piniperda (L.), Hylurgops palliatus (Gyll.), Ips acuminatus (Gyll.), I. duplicatus (Sahlb.), I. sexdentatus (Boern.), I. typographus (L.), Orthotomicus laricis (F.), Polygraphus poligraphus (L.), Scolytus ratzeburgi Jans., and S. rugulosus (Müll.).

In the collection of ZISP

91 females, 33 males.

Literature

• Tselikh E.V. 2019. 38. Family Pteromalidae / Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Volume II. Apocrita: Parasitica, Eds. by Belokobylskij S.A., Samartsev K.G., Il'inskaya A.S. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences. Supplement 8. Zoological Institute RAS, St Petersburg, 83–111. PDF
• Tselikh E.V. 2010. Chalcids of the Subfamily Pteromalinae (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) as Parasitoids of the Bark Beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytidae) in the Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Territories PDF