Two new species of Strongylopsis Brauns (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) from Beijing, and a key to all species

Shu-Ping Sun,Mao-Ling Sheng,Tao Li,Tao Wang

doi:10.3897/jhr.79.57726

Abstract

Two new species of the genusStrongylopsisBrauns, 1896, are described and illustrated,S. propodealisSheng &amp; Sun,sp. nov.andS. punctataSheng &amp; Sun,sp. nov., both collected from Mentougou, Beijing, China. An identification key to all known species ofStrongylopsisis provided.

Highlights

Strongylopsis Brauns, 1896, a small genus of the tribe Pimplini in the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), comprises seven species (Yu et al 2016) from the Palaearctic Region, of which six from the Eastern Palaearctic Region (Kuzin 1950; Viktorov 1958; Momoi 1973; He et al 1996; He and Liu 2013), three from the Western Palaearctic Region (Brauns 1896; Kasparyan 1974)
Kasparyan (1974) first provided an identification key to the species of Strongylopsis. He and Liu (2013) modified the key with descriptions of one new species, which was collected from the area near the southern border of the Eastern Palaearctic part of China
It is known that the males of Ichneumonids are often more caught using interception traps (IT) or Malaise traps

Summary

Introduction

Strongylopsis Brauns, 1896, a small genus of the tribe Pimplini in the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), comprises seven species (Yu et al 2016) from the Palaearctic Region, of which six from the Eastern Palaearctic Region (two of them occur in the Western Palaearctic region) (Kuzin 1950; Viktorov 1958; Momoi 1973; He et al 1996; He and Liu 2013), three from the Western Palaearctic Region (Brauns 1896; Kasparyan 1974). Two species of Strongylopsis have previously been known from China (He et al 1996; He and Liu 2013). He and Liu (2013) modified the key with descriptions of one new species, which was collected from the area near the southern border of the Eastern Palaearctic part of China. In the present research two new species of Strongylopsis, collected in this area, are described

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