Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species new to the fauna of Norway

Abstract

The present paper contains new distributional records for 61 species of ichneumon wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) previously unknown for Norway, six of them are reported from Scandinavia for the first time.

A Study on the Ichneumonid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Isfahan Province, Iran

“…Several of the collected Ichneumonidae are still waiting for subsequent determinations. The Ichneumonidae is the largest family within Hymenoptera, and one of the largest among insects (Humala and Reshchikov, 2014). Although in total more than 500 species of Ichneumonidae have been listed from Iran so far (Barahoei et al, 2012), the published data from the adjacent countries and also presence of various geographical regions and climates in Iran suggest that the Iranian list is still very incomplete.…”

A review of the genera Gnathochorisis Förster and Symplecis Förster of South Korea, with notes on Korean orthocentrines (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Orthocentrinae)

“…This is the first record of the genus from this country. In the European part of Russia Gnathochorisis flavipes Förster was reared from the fungus gnat Neoempheria striata Meigen (Mycetophilidae: Mycomyinae) (Humala 2003), other published host records (Dasch 1992) seem to be doubtful.…”

“…Most orthocentrines are koinobiont endoparasitoids of nematoceran Diptera (Sciaroidea), the larvae of which often develop in fungal fruiting bodies (Roman 1923, Askew and Shaw 1986, Humala 2003). Only Orthocentrinae sensu stricto (Townes 1971), or the Orthocentrus genus-group (Wahl and Gauld 1998), is morphologically well defined, comprising a distinctive, monophyletic lineage within the subfamily (Broad 2010), while the remaining genera–for a long time considered a “wastebasket” group among ichneumon wasps, which is the most difficult of the ichneumonid subfamilies to define (Townes 1971)–have significant morphological diversity.…”

“…was revised by Dasch (1992), the Western Palaearctic fauna was revised by Aubert (1968, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981) and Rossem (1981, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, etc. ), whereas the Eastern Palaearctic is scarcely covered by taxonomic and faunistic studies (Uchida 1930, 1942; Rossem 1981-1991; Humala 2003, 2007; Kasparyan et al 2012, etc. ).…”

First record of Helictes fabularis Rossem, 1987 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Iran

“…Iran (new record). -Canary Islands, Finland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Poland, NW Russia, Sweden (Yu et al, 2012;Humala, 2015).…”