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Descriptions of two new species of Brachyzapus Gauld & Dubois (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from South Korea with key to a Palaearctic species

Department of Science Education, Daegu National University of Education, Daegu, 42411, South Korea.
Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, South Korea.
Hymenoptera Brachyzapus convergens Brachyzapus pyramidalis parasitoids taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Brachyzapus Gauld & Dubois are described from South Korea: Brachyzapus convergens sp. nov. and B. pyramidalis sp. nov. Four species of this genus are newly recorded from South Korea, with diagnoses provided. A key to species of the Palaearctic region of this genus and illustrations of their external characters are provided.

 

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