A taxonomic study of four rare pteromalid genera: Amblyharma Huang & Tong, Fusta Xiao & Ye, Nazgulia Hedqvist and Platecrizotes Ferrière from the Eastern Palaearctic (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Pachyneurinae)

Ekaterina V Tselikh; Jaehyeon Lee; Deok-Seo Ku

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1189.113982

A taxonomic study of four rare pteromalid genera: Amblyharma Huang & Tong, Fusta Xiao & Ye, Nazgulia Hedqvist and Platecrizotes Ferrière from the Eastern Palaearctic (Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Pachyneurinae)

Zookeys. 2024 Jan 19:1189:349-363. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1189.113982. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Ekaterina V Tselikh¹, Jaehyeon Lee², Deok-Seo Ku³

Affiliations

¹ Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg Russia.
² Department of Plant Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea Gyeongsang National University Jinju Republic of Korea.
³ The Science Museum of Natural Enemies, Geochang 50147, Republic of Korea The Science Museum of Natural Enemies Geochang Republic of Korea.

Abstract

The four morphologically similar genera Amblyharma Huang & Tong, 1993, Fusta Xiao & Ye, 2015, Nazgulia Hedqvist, 1973 and Platecrizotes Ferrière, 1934 from the Eastern Palaearctic are reviewed. Redescriptions of genera and all available types of Eastern Palaearctic species are provided. An identification key to genera is given. A new species from South Korea, Platecrizotesjediisp. nov. is described and illustrated.

Keywords: Description; Pachyneurinae; key; new record; new species; parasitoid; redescription; taxonomy.

Ekaterina V. Tselikh, Jaehyeon Lee, Deok-Seo Ku.