Ophion rufoniger Kohl 1905

Ophion rufoniger Kohl, 1905 Figs 16A‒B, F Ophion rufoniger Kohl, 1905: 223. Lectotype ♀ female from Azerbaijan in NHMW, examined. Material examined: IRAN: 1♀, Esfan dagheh-Djirouft, 20 Apr. 1971, Saf Zair leg. (HMIM). Remarks: Ophion rufoniger (Figs 16A‒B, F) was described from Goygol in Northwestern Azerbaijan (Kohl, 1905). It is a very rarely recorded species also known from Armenia and Georgia. The species is quite easily determined based on the buccate head and the dark reddish brown body with mainly black metasoma and legs. The depicted female specimen is from Georgia and housed in OÖLM.
Published as part of Johansson, Niklas, Ameri, Ali, Riedel, Matthias, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, 2021, Contribution to the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran with the description of 16 new species and an illustrated key to the Eremotylus of the Western Palaearctic, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 184, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5225655
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