Hymenoptera) from South Korea
Anim. Syst. Evol. Divers. Vol. 31, No. 2: 67-76, April 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.5635/ASED.2015.31.2.067 Review article New Records of Ten Species of the Family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) from South Korea Jin-Kyung Choi1, Jong-Chul Jeong2, Gukhyang Ko1, Jong-Wook Lee1,* 1Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 712-749, Korea 2National Park Research Institute, Korea National Park Service, Wonju 220-947, Korea ABSTRACT We report ten ichneumonids species new to South Korea. These species belong to eight subfamilies, Acaenitinae Förster, 1869, Diacritinae Townes, 1965, Ichneumoninae Latreille, 1802, Mesochorinae Förster, 1869, Micro- leptinae Townes, 1958, Pimplinae Wesmael, 1845, Tryponinae Shuckard, 1840, and Xoridinae Shuckard, 1840. Photographs of the habitus and diagnosis of ten newly recorded species, as well as host information are provided. Keywords: Acaenitinae, Diacritinae, Ichneumoninae, Mesochorinae, Microleptinae, Pimplinae, Tryponinae, Xoridinae, taxonomy INTRODUCTION processed using the AxioVision SE64 software (Carl Zeiss), and optimized with a Delta imaging system (i-solution; IMT The family Ichneumonidae Latreille, 1802 is a small to i-Solution Inc., Vancouver, Canada). The morphological ter- large-sized family containing 24,281 described species minology mostly follows that of Townes (1969). Abbrevia- within 1,579 genera worldwide. Of these, 540 species have tions were as follows: TD, type depository; DEI, Deutsches been recorded from South Korea (Yu et al., 2012). Most Entomologisches Institut, Schicklerstrasse 5, D-16225 Eber- ichneumonids are endo-ectoparasitoids of Lepidoptera, Co- swalde, Germany; HU, Entomological Institute, Faculty of leoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera or Arachnida. Therefore, Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; LS, Lin- ichneumon flies are important to control of reproduction of naean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, En- injurious insects (Bartlett et al., 1978).
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