Two new species of Ismarus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Ismaridae) from Yunnan, China

Cheng-Jin Yan; Yan-Qiong Peng; Hua-Yan Chen

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1174.106404

Two new species of Ismarus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Ismaridae) from Yunnan, China

Zookeys. 2023 Aug 10:1174:207-217. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1174.106404. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Cheng-Jin Yan¹, Yan-Qiong Peng², Hua-Yan Chen³

Affiliations

¹ Southern Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Breeding, Wenzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou, 325006, China Southern Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Breeding, Wenzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology Wenzhou China.
² CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, China CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chi-nese Academy of Sciences Mengla China.
³ Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou China.

Abstract

The genus Ismarus Haliday are rarely collected parasitoids in the small family Ismaridae. In this study, two new species are described from China's Yunnan Province: Ismarusrobustus Chen & Yan, sp. nov. and Ismarusunisulcus Chen & Yan, sp. nov. An updated key to the Chinese species of the genus is provided.

Keywords: Diaprioidea; hyperparasitoid; key; new species; taxonomy; wasp.

Cheng-Jin Yan, Yan-Qiong Peng, Hua-Yan Chen.

Grants and funding

the Insect Network of Sino-BON and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32100360)