Abstract

In this study, we describe two remarkable species,Ctenochira arkadyiKasparyan,sp. nov.(Tryphoninae) from southern Siberia (Russia), andProbles arkadyiKhalaim,sp. nov.(Tersilochinae) from Japan. These two species are named in honour of our colleague and friend, an expert in Aculeata (Hymenoptera), Russian entomologist, Prof. Arkady Lelej, in honour of his 75thbirthday. The recently described European species,Ctenochira magnusiHaraldseide, 2018, is discovered from the Russian Far East; the male ofC. magnusiis recorded and described for the first time.

Highlights

  • IntroductionIn spite of the extensive study of Darwin wasps (the name suggested for the Ichneumonidae by Klopfstein et al 2019) in the Eastern Palaearctic region during the past decades, fauna of this region remains understudied and comprises many undescribed taxa

  • In spite of the extensive study of Darwin wasps in the Eastern Palaearctic region during the past decades, fauna of this region remains understudied and comprises many undescribed taxa

  • The specimens examined in this study were borrowed from or deposited in the following collections: the Matsuyama University, Ehime Pref., Shikoku, Japan (EUM), and the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St

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Introduction

In spite of the extensive study of Darwin wasps (the name suggested for the Ichneumonidae by Klopfstein et al 2019) in the Eastern Palaearctic region during the past decades, fauna of this region remains understudied and comprises many undescribed taxa. Khalaim / Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84: 115–126 (2021)

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