Species of the genus Lamachus Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) parasitizing diprionid sawflies (Hymenoptera, Diprionidae) with descriptions of two new species and a key to Chinese species

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

249

Pages

37-49

Subjects

Biology , Ctenopelmatinae , Diprion jingyuanensis , Diprionidae , Lamachus , Neodiprion huizeensis , new species , parasitoid

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.249.4069

 

Abstract

Four species of the genus Lamachus Förster 1869 belonging to the tribe Mesoleiini of the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) are reported from China. Two of them are new to science, L. nigrus Li, Sheng & Sun, sp. n. and L. rufiabdominalis Li, Sheng & Sun, sp. n. were reared from Neodiprion huizeensis Xiao & Zhou, in Guizhou Province of the Oriental part of China. The biology of L. rufiabdominalis is described. A key to the species of Lamachus known from China is provided.