Three new species and a new record of the genus Lipolexis (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Aphidiinae) from South Korea

By

Kim, Sangjin
Sohn, Juhyeong
Kim, Hyojoong

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-7-15

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1245

Pages

323--342

Subjects

DNA barcoding , natural enemy , parasitoid wasps , systematics , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1245.138802

 

Abstract

The genus Lipolexis Förster, 1863 consists of 11 species worldwide, with two species previously recorded in South Korea. In this study, three new species: L. depressiceps S. Kim & H. Kim, sp. nov., L. sulcata S. Kim & H. Kim, sp. nov., and L. longipetiolata S. Kim & H. Kim, sp. nov. with an unrecorded species, L. peregrina, Tomanović & Kocić, 2020, are described and reported with photographs, mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) data (barcode region), and a gene tree.