First record of the subfamily Oxytorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Korea with descriptions of two new species

Abstract

The subfamily Oxytorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) is recorded from South Korea for the first time along with descriptions of two new species, Oxytorus diceratops Lee et Kasparyan sp. nov. from South Korea and O. areolator Lee et Kasparyan sp. nov. from South Korea and the South Far East of Russia. A key for identification of the Palaearctic species of Oxytorus is given. Line drawings and photos of diagnostic characters of new species are also provided.

Review of the New World species ofOxytorus(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Oxytorinae), with description of two new species from Brazil

“…7A) Oxytorus woolleyi Kasparyan and Ruiz-Cancino, 2000: 126 Material examined. Type material reported by Kasparyan and Ruiz-Cancino (2000) preserved in UAT. Non-type material: MEXICO: Sinaloa, 15 miles W. El Palmito, 5000', 16.VII.1964, 1 ♂, W.R.M.…”

“…Type material reported by Gauld (2000), preserved in INBio, AEIC and BMNH. Also the male from Tamaulipas (Mexico) described by Kasparyan and Ruiz-Cancino (2000) (UAT).…”

“…Remarks. The male described by Kasparyan and Ruiz-Cancino (2000) has a weak epomia but the species is distinguishable from O. knappae by the shorter area superomedia and tergite I. Gauld and Mallet, 2000 (Figs.…”

“…From these species, nine are Palaearctic, three Nearctic, and six have Neotropical distributions (Yu et al 2012). Oytorus woolleyi (Kasparyan and Ruiz-Cancino, 2000) considered by Yu et al (2012) as Neotropical, well could be considered Nearctic because it is only known from northern Mexico. The rest of the Neotropical species include four in Costa Rica (Gauld 2000), one of them also distributed in Mexico, and another one from South America, reported from a Peruvian premontane rain-forest (Alvarado et al 2011).…”

“…The rest of the Neotropical species include four in Costa Rica (Gauld 2000), one of them also distributed in Mexico, and another one from South America, reported from a Peruvian premontane rain-forest (Alvarado et al 2011). Nothing is known about the hosts of the genus, but the ovipositor form suggests they are koinobiont endoparasitoids of exposed larvae of some holometabolous insect (Gauld 2000; Kasparyan and Ruiz-Cancino 2000).…”