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Genus Pygostolus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) New to Korea View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9 (2016) 494e495 HOSTED BY Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/japb Short communication Genus Pygostolus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) new to Korea Hye-Rin Lee a,b,*, Tae-Ho An a, Bong-Kyu Byun b, Deok-Seo Ku a a The Science Museum of Natural Enemies, Geochang, South Korea b Department of Biological Science & Biotechnology, Hannam University, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea article info abstract Article history: The genus Pygostolus Haliday of the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with a newly Received 4 August 2016 recorded species, Pygostolus falcatus (Ness), is reported for the first time from Korea. Diagnosis and a Received in revised form photograph of the genus and species are provided. 8 September 2016 Copyright Ó 2016, National Science Museum of Korea (NSMK) and Korea National Arboretum (KNA). Accepted 13 September 2016 Production and hosting by Elsevier. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http:// Available online 21 September 2016 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Keywords: Braconidae Hymenoptera Korea new record Pygostolus Introduction Enemies (SMNE), Geochang, Korea. The specimen was photo- graphed with Leica DMS 1000 using the Leica Application Suite Pygostolus Haliday is a small genus of the subfamily Euphorinae. [Leica Camera; Aktiengesellschaft (AG), Wetzlar, Germany]. Ter- The genus contains five species in the Holarctic region (Yu et al minology used in this paper follows van Achterberg (1993). Ab- 2012). Several undescribed Neotropical species have been breviations used in this study are as follows: SMNEdScience collected to date (Shaw 1985). In the present study, the genus is Museum of Natural Enemies, GWdProv. Gangwon. reported for the first time from Korea, with a newly recorded species, Pygostolus falcatus (Ness). Systematic accounts Pygostolus mainly parasitizes adults of Curulionidae, less Family Braconidae Nees, 1811 commonly adults of Chrysomelidae, and, as frequently reported, Subfamily Euphorinae Foerster, 1862 the larva of microlepidoptera (Loan and Holdaway 1961; van 1992; Chen and van Achterberg 1997). The members of the genus leap Genus Pygostolus Haliday, 1833 (바구미성충살이고치벌속: 신칭) onto the elytra of the host in order to oviposit and construct their Pygostolus Haliday, 1833: 263; Shenefelt, 1969:122;Achterberg, cocoons on twigs or leaves (Loan and Holdaway 1961; Shaw and 1982:137;1985:353;Shaw, 1985:334;Tobias, 1986:221, Huddleston 1991). In the present study, we report the genus Achterberg, 1992:350. Pygostolus Haliday for the first time from Korea, including an un- recorded species. Diagnosis. Apex of antenna with spine; mesosternum flattened and of female very densely felty setose; vein 1-SR of fore wing Materials and methods present; vein 1-SRþM of fore wing present; vein MþCU1 of fore wing sclerotized; first metasomal tergite robust, strongly narrowed We provide the diagnosis and a photograph of the species. basally, almost parallel-sided or weakly convex behind spiracles; Examined material is deposited in the Science Museum of Natural dorsope large and deep; ovipositor wide, strongly compressed; ovipositor sheath wide, densely transversely striate, rather flat. * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (H.-R. Lee). Pygostolus falcatus (Nees, 1834) 낫모양바구미성충살이고치벌 Peer review under responsibility of National Science Museum of Korea (NSMK) and 신칭 Korea National Arboretum (KNA). ( ) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.japb.2016.09.005 pISSN2287-884X eISSN2287-9544/Copyright Ó 2016, National Science Museum of Korea (NSMK) and Korea National Arboretum (KNA). Production and hosting by Elsevier. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). HR Lee et al. / Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 9 (2016) 494e495 495 lignarius, Phyllobius argentatus, Phyllobius maculicornis, Phyllobius pyri, Phyllobius urticae, Polydrusus pilosulus, Sitona crinita, Sitona cylin- dricollis, Sitona hispidula, Sitona humeralis, Sitona inops, Sitona lineata, Sitona scissifrons, Strophosoma rufipes, Thylacites incanus (Curculioni- dae) (after Shenefelt 1969). Acknowledgments This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Biological Resources, funded by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea (NIBR201501203). References Achterberg van C. 1982. 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