New records of the genus Polysphincta Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from the Oriental region

OLEKSANDR VARGA; ALEXEY RESHCHIKOV

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.10

Issue: Vol. 3955 No. 3: 5 May 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-05-05

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.10

Page range: 435–443

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**New records of the genus Polysphincta Gravenhorst, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from the Oriental region**

OLEKSANDR VARGA⁺⁻
ALEXEY RESHCHIKOV⁺⁻

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine.

Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.

Hymenoptera Ephialtini Thailand taxonomy new species new synonymy

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Abstract

A new species, Polysphincta punctigaster Varga & Reshchikov sp. n., the second known species of the genus from the Oriental region, is described from Thailand. Polysphincta asiatica Kusigemati, 1984 is considered to be a junior synonym of P. boops Tschek, 1869 (syn. nov.). Polysphincta longa Kasparyan, 1976 is recorded from the Oriental region for the first time.