Check-List of the Aphidiid-Wasp Subfamily Prainae (Hymenoptera, Aphidiidae) from Russia and Adjacent Countries

Additional data on Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) fauna of Kyrgyzstan, with description of a new species

“…Interestingly, in this comprehensive study only four species were recorded in Kyrgyz Republic, which is the smallest number for all countries in the region (Starý 1979). Additional data were published in the last five years by Davidian (Davidian 2016(Davidian , 2017(Davidian , 2018(Davidian , 2019 where she provided historical data (from museum collections) for 19 more species from Kyrgyz Republic. Although our study increases the number of species by more than 50% (to 35 species), the Aphidiinae fauna of Kyrgyzstan can be treated as unexplored.…”

“…Previous records of Aphidiinae are scarce and were published in studies covering much broader areas such as former U. S. S. R. (Starý 1965;Davidian 2016Davidian , 2017Davidian , 2018Davidian , 2019 or Central Asia (Starý 1979). In total, 23 Aphidiinae species belonging to 10 genera have been recorded in Kyrgyz Republic so far (Starý 1979;Davidian 2016Davidian , 2017Davidian , 2018Davidian , 2019. The majority of published records were collected during the 1960s, while the most recent record is more than 35 years old (Davidian 2016).…”

Review of the Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) fauna of the European North of Russia

“…The western part of this territory belongs to Fennoscandia, including the Kola Peninsula, the Republic Karelia and adjacent areas of Leningrad Region (the Karelian Isthmus and the right bank of the Svir' River). The Aphidiinae fauna of Fennoscandia remains poorly studied, although its regular study began as early as the 1960s and are still ongoing Gärdenfors, 1986;Hofsvang, Hågvar, 1983;Tobias, Kiriac, 1986;Davidian, Humala, 2017;Davidian, 2016Davidian, , 2019a. Prior to our studies, only 23 species of Aphidiinae had been recorded in Russian Fennoscandia .…”

“…According to the vast majority of modern researchers, we accept their concept here and consider aphidiines as a subfamily within the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) [Yu et al, 2016;Chen, van Achterberg, 2019]. However, there is another point of view, according to which this group is considered as a separate family within the superfamily Ichneumonoidea closely related to Braconidae [Starý, 1970;Tobias, Kiriac, 1986;Davidian, 2007Davidian, , 2016Davidian, , 2018bDavidian, , 2019a. According to various estimates, between 500 and over 650 species from 54 genera are known in the recent world fauna, more than half of which are distributed in the Palaearctic region [Yu et al, 2016;Žikić et al, 2017].…”