Abstract
A new species, Syntactus jiulianicus Sun & Sheng, sp.n. belonging to the tribe Pionini of the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), collected from Jiangxi Province, China, is reported. Illustrations of the new species and Syntactus delusor (Linnaeus, 1758), Syntactus minor (Holmgren, 1857) and Syntactus varius (Holmgren, 1858) are provided. A key to the species of Syntactus known from the Oriental and Eastern Palaearctic Regions is given.
Highlights
Syntactus Förster, 1869, belonging to the tribe Pionini of the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), comprises six described species (Horstmann 2007, Kasparyan and Khalaim 2007, Yu et al 2005), all of them distributed in the Palaearctic Region, three of which are from the Eastern Palearctic.Copyright Shu-Ping Sun, Mao-Ling Sheng
The European species of Syntactus Förster were catalogued by Aubert (2000)
No species of the genus have been described from the Oriental Region
Summary
Syntactus Förster, 1869, belonging to the tribe Pionini of the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), comprises six described species (Horstmann 2007, Kasparyan and Khalaim 2007, Yu et al 2005), all of them distributed in the Palaearctic Region, three of which are from the Eastern Palearctic.Copyright Shu-Ping Sun, Mao-Ling Sheng. Syntactus delusor (Linnaeus, 1758), was recorded from Shanxi, China (Chao 1976, Uchida 1952). In this article a new species belonging to Syntactus, collected in Jiangxi Province, situated at the northern border of the Oriental part of China, are reported. Type-species: (Brischkea parvula Kriechbaumer) = delusor Linnaeus; monobasic.
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