Reijo Jussila, Krouvintie 92, FIN-21330 Paattinen, Finland, 
e-mail:reijo.jussila@utu.fi


Following specimens have been found in Finland: 1 female from 
Ka:Virolahti 672:13 27.VII.1976, and four males and one female 
from N:Espoo, Kilo 662:36 8.VIII.1997 (R. Jussila leg.). 
One male has been found in Denmark, Jylland, Filsøy Channel 7.VIII.1967 
(a field course of the University of Bergen leg.). 
This species is new to the Finnish and Danish faunas).
   The genus Dyspetes Förster, 1969 belongs to the subfamily Tryphoninae. 
It is distinguishable from the other genera by its large and rhombic 
areolet of the front wing. The head has a triangular depression behind 
the dorsal ocelli. Two species have been described, one Palaearctic and 
the other North American.
   According to Kasparyan (1973), Dyspetes arrogans is a trans-Palaearctic 
species known from Sweden and Spain in the west to Kamchatka and China in the east. 
It breeds on sawflies Tenthredo, Tenthredopsis and Aglaostigma (Hinz 1961).


References

Hinz, R, 1961: Über Blattwespenparasiten (Hym., und Dipt.). – Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. 
Ges. 34: 1-29.
Kasparyan, D. 1973: Ichneumonidae (Subfamily Tryphoninae). Tribe Tryphonini. – Fauna 
of the USSR, Hymenoptera III:1 (New series, No. 106): 414 pp. Translated from Russian 1981.