Faunistic records and description of two new species of Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Russia and other countries

Abstract

Based on the large examined materials of Tersilochinae from the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg) and other world collections, faunistic records from the Palaearctic Region (mainly from Russia) for 87 tersilochine species belonging to ten genera are provided, including ten species recorded for the first time from Russia. Two new species, Probles smaragdites Khalaim, sp. nov. and Tersilochus turpiculus Khalaim, sp. nov., are described from the Russian Far East. Gelanes tootsae Khalaim, 2002 syn. nov. is synonymised with G. cuspidatus Khalaim, 2002. Tersilochus kerzhneri Khalaim, 2007 is excluded from the fauna of Europe. The male of Tersilochus impunctator Khalaim, 2012 is recorded for the first time. Specimens of Tersilochinae, deposited in the Zoological Institute RAS (St Petersburg) and the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University (Moscow) and briefly mentioned from the former USSR by K. Horstmann in his revisions (1971, 1981), are found, re-examined, and their complete label data are provided.

New record and the updated list of Tersilochinae (Hym., Ichneumonidae) from Iran

“…Tersilochinae Schmiedeknecht, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) is a moderately large subfamily with about 600 known species worldwide within 34 genera (Yu et al, 2016), and approximately 300 species in the Palaearctic region, of which 160 species from 13 genera are found in Europe (Khalaim & Yurtcan, 2011). Fifteen species in eight genera of this subfamily have been reported from Iran (Barahoei et al, 2013;Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al, 2016;Khalaim & Tereshkin, 2019). Members of this subfamily are koinobiont endoparasitoids of Coleopteran larvae including Curculionidae, Chrysomelidae and some Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera.…”

New Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Tersilochinae, Tryphoninae) from the Eastern Palaearctic region

“…Probles Förster, 1869 is a large almost worldwide genus of Tersilochinae with 74 described species, of which over 50 species occur in the Palaearctic region. The European fauna of the genus was revised by Horstmann (1971Horstmann ( , 1981, and in 21 st century new species were described in the Eastern Palaearctic region from China (Khalaim and Sheng 2009), South Korea (Khalaim et al 2013;Balueva et al 2014;Khalaim et al 2017), Russian Far East (Khalaim 2014;Khalaim and Tereshkin 2019), and in the Oriental region from Vietnam (Khalaim 2011(Khalaim , 2018(Khalaim , 2019. However, many Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental species of Probles remain undescribed.…”