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Issue: Vol. 3873 No. 3: 16 Oct. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-10-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.3.4
Page range: 250–258
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

A new Orussus species from South Korea, and a key to the East Asian Orussidae (Hymenoptera)

Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea.
Key Laboratory of Cultivation and Protection for Non–Wood Forest Trees (Central South University of Forestry and Technology), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410004, China.
Department of Biosystematics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.
Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea.
basal parasitoid Eastern Palaearctic Orussus melanosoma sawfly taxonomy

Abstract

Orussus melanosoma Lee & Wei, sp. nov. from South Korea is described and illustrated. Phylogenetic analyses place the new species basally in Orussus, together with other species from the Far East. A key to species of Orussidae from the eastern Palaearctic is provided.