The genus Omalus Panzer, 1801 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from China, with descriptions of four new species

By

Wei, Na-sen
Rosa, Paolo
Liu, Jingxian
Xu, Zaifu.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

407

Pages

29-54

Subjects

China , Chrysididae , new species , Omalus , Oriental , Palaearctic

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.407.7531

 

Abstract

The Chinese species of the genus Omalus Panzer, 1801 are revised and keyed for the first time. Eight species are recorded, of which four are new to science and one is new to China: Omalus aeneus (Fabricius, 1787), Omalus berezovskii (Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1932), Omalus potanini (Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1932), Omalus imbecillus (Mocsáry, 1889) (new to China), Omalus helanshanus sp. n., Omalus probiaccinctus sp.n., Omalus pseudoimbecillus sp. n., and Omalus tibetanus sp. n.