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Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-17
Page range: 591–599
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First record of the genus Aplomerus Provancher, 1886
(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Xoridinae) from the Oriental region, with descriptions of two new species

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine.
Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
taxonomy new record Amphi-North Pacific disjunct distribution South East Asia Thailand Vietnam

Abstract

The genus Aplomerus Provancher, 1886 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) is a small genus of the subfamily Xoridinae. Two new species from Asia, A. orientalis Varga & Reshchikov sp. n. from Thailand and A. phamae Broad sp. n. from Vietnam, are described and illustrated. An identification key for Asian species is provided. These are the first records of the genus from the Oriental region and increases the known number of Aplomerus species to eight, with a disjunct distribution of North America, Japan and south-east Asia.