A new species of genus Syntactus Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ctenopelmatinae) with a key to Oriental and Eastern Palearctic species

By

Sun, Shu-Ping
Sheng, Mao-Ling

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

170

Pages

21-28

Subjects

China , key , new species , Oriental region , Palaearctic region , Pionini , Syntactus , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.170.2321

 

Abstract

A new species, Syntactus jiulianicus Sun & Sheng, sp. n. belonging to the tribe Pionini of the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), collected from Jiangxi Province, China, is reported. Illustrations of the new species and S. delusor (Linnaeus, 1758), S. minor (Holmgren, 1857) and S. varius (Holmgren, 1858) are provided. A key to the species of Syntactus known from the Oriental and Eastern Palaearctic Regions is given.