New braconid parasitoids of the subfamilies Hormiinae, Rhysipolinae and Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the fauna of Korean Peninsula, with notes on the Asian genus Plesiocedria van Achterberg et Chen, 2004 of the subfamily Pambolinae
Belokobylskij S.A. 1 , Ku D.-S. 2
2 The Science Museum of Natural Enemies, Geochang , Republic of Korea
Year: 2026, Number: 547, Pages: 1-27
Two new species of the subfamily Hormiinae, Parahormius breviradialis sp. n. (Avgini) and Aulosaphes pallipes sp. n. (Lysitermini), are described and illustrated from South Korea. Six species from the subfamilies Rhysipolinae [Pachystigmus (Pachystigmus) facialis (Foerster, 1863) and P. (Pseudavga) flavicoxa (Tobias, 1964)] and Hormiinae (Lysitermini) (Acanthormius crustatus Belokobylskij, 1986, A. rossicus Tobias et Belokobylskij, 1981, A. rugosivertex Belokobylskij, 1988, and A. takadai Watanabe, 1968) as well as two species from subfamily Doryctinae [Spathiostenus formosanus (Watanabe, 1934) and Spathius tsushimus Belokobylskij, 2009] are new to the fauna of Korean Peninsula. The taxonomy and distribution of the genus Plesiocedria van Achterberg et Chen, 2004 (Pambolinae) are discussed. The species Pambolus unicolor Belokobylskij, 1992 is transferred to the genus Plesiocedria; as result, a new combination is proposed: Plesiocedria unicolor (Belokobylskij, 1992), comb. n. New synonymy is established: Plesiocedria unicolor (Belokobylskij, 1992) = Plesiocedria intermediata van Achterberg et Chen, 2004, syn. n.
DOI: 10.25221/fee.547.1
Keywords: Parasitoids, Ichneumonoidea, taxonomy, new species, fauna, new records, East Asia,
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