Abstract
The genus Iporhogas Granger, 1949 (Braconidae: Rogadinae) is recorded for the first time for Vietnam. Four new species of the genus Iporhogas, viz. Iporhogas albilateralis sp. n., I. contrastus sp. n., I. simulatus sp. n. and I. tricoloratus sp. n., from Vietnam are described and illustrated, and additionally, one species, Iporhogas guangxiensis Chen & He, 1997, is newly recorded for Vietnam’s fauna of the family Braconidae. A key to the five Vietnamese species of the genus Iporhogas and a checklist with distributions of the ten species are provided.
Highlights
The Rogadinae is one of the largest subfamilies of Braconidae, as far as known spe cies of this subfamily consists of koinobiont endoparasitoids of lepidopteran larvae in which the host caterpillar is mummified
To date only seven genera and 25 species of Vietnamese Rogadinae have been reported in papers scattered in the literature (Long and Belokobylskij 2003; Long and van Achterberg 2008a, 2008b; Butcher et al 2012)
The genus Iporhogas proposed by Granger (1949) is a small genus of the rogadine braconids, this genus comprises six species, of which five occur in the Oriental region (Chen and He 1997) and one in the Afrotropical region (Granger 1949)
Summary
The Rogadinae is one of the largest subfamilies of Braconidae, as far as known spe cies of this subfamily consists of koinobiont endoparasitoids of lepidopteran larvae in which the host caterpillar is mummified (van Achterberg 1991; Townsend and Shaw 2009). New records of the genus Iporhogas Granger (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) from Vietnam, with description of four new species
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