A review of the subgenera Arichelonus, Megachelonus and Scabrichelonus of the genus Chelonus Panzer (Braconidae: Cheloninae) with description of five new species from China

Jin-Jin Zhou; Kees VAN Achterberg; P U Tang

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5165.4.5

A review of the subgenera Arichelonus, Megachelonus and Scabrichelonus of the genus Chelonus Panzer (Braconidae: Cheloninae) with description of five new species from China

Zootaxa. 2022 Jul 18;5165(4):527-547. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.4.5.

Authors

Jin-Jin Zhou¹, Kees VAN Achterberg², P U Tang³

Affiliations

¹ Hainan Institute, Zhejiang University, Sanya 572000, China 2Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642 , China. Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. auzhou@zju.edu.cn.
² Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642 , China. Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. kees@vanachterberg.org.
³ Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510642 , China 3State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 4Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 5Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. ptang@zju.edu.cn.

PMID: 36101311
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.4.5

Abstract

The subgenus Arichelonus Viereck, 1913 of genus Chelonus Panzer, 1806 is newly recorded from China and five new species belonging to three different subgenera are described and illustrated from China, i.e., Chelonus (Arichelonus) allokotosus sp. nov., Chelonus (Arichelonus) kenosetrus sp. nov., Chelonus (Megachelonus) irilaminatus sp. nov., Chelonus (Megachelonus) macrodontus sp. nov., and Chelonus (Scabrichelonus) nigrifemoratus sp. nov. Keys to the currently known species of the subgenera Arichelonus, Megachelonus and Scabrichelonus are provided.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
China
Hymenoptera*