Four new species of the genus Lathrolestes Förster, 1869 from South Korea (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae)

Alexey Reshchikov; Jin-Kyung Choi; Jong-Wook Lee

doi:10.3897/zookeys.657.11630

Four new species of the genus Lathrolestes Förster, 1869 from South Korea (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae)

Zookeys. 2017 Feb 17:(657):81-92. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11630. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Alexey Reshchikov¹, Jin-Kyung Choi², Jong-Wook Lee²

Affiliations

¹ College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen University, 135 Xingangxi St.Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
² Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea.

Abstract

Four new species of the genus Lathrolestes Förster, 1869 are discovered from South Korea: Lathrolestes redimiculus Reshchikov & Lee, sp. n., Lathrolestes sexmaculatus Reshchikov & Lee, sp. n., Lathrolestes taebaeksanensis Reshchikov & Lee, sp. n., and Lathrolestes ungnyeo Reshchikov & Lee, sp. n. This is the first record of the genus from South Korea.

Keywords: Eastern Palaearctic; Korea; Perilissini; key; parasitoid wasps; taxonomy.

Publication types

Review