Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2022-07-18
Page range: 591-600
Abstract views: 314
PDF downloaded: 16

Discovery of the Darwin wasp subfamily Lycorininae Cushman & Rohwer (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from India with description of a new species from Kashmir

SMS Foundation Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560064, India.
Department of Zoology, Government Degree College, Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir, 192305, India.
SMS Foundation Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur Post, Bangalore 560064, India.
Hymenoptera Ichneumonid wasp taxonomy Indomalayan and Palaearctic regions new record

Abstract

The Darwin wasp subfamily Lycorininae is newly reported from India with the description of a new species, Lycorina sehgali. A taxonomic key to the identification of Indomalayan and Palaearctic species is given along with the illustration of L. ruficornis, L. spilonotae and L. triangulifera.

 

References

  1. Bennett, A.M.R., Cardinal, S., Gauld, I.D. & Wahl, D.B. (2019) Phylogeny of the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 71, 1–156. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.71.32375
    Broad, G.R., Shaw, M.R. & Fitton, M.G. (2018) Ichneumonid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): their classification and biology. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, 7 (12), 1–418.
    Chao, H.F. (1980) Description of Lycorina spilonotae Chao, sp. nov., with notes on its final-instar larvae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Lycorinae). Entomotaxonomia, 2, 165–168. [in Chinese with English summary]
    Coronado-Rivera, J., Gonzalez-Herrera, A., Gauld, I.D. & Hanson, P. (2004) The enigmatic biology of the Ichneumonid subfamily Lycorininae. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 13, 223–227.
    Cushman, R.A. & Rohwer, S.A. (1920) Holarctic tribes of the Ichneumon-flies of the subfamily Ichneumoninae (Pimplinae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 57, 379–396. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.57-2315.379
    Eady, R.D. (1968) Some illustrations of microsculpture in the Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series A, General Entomology, 43, 66–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3032.1968.tb01029.x
    Gauld, I.D. (1984) The Pimplinae, Xoridinae, Acaenitinae and Lycorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Series, 49, 235–339.
    Holmgren, A.E. (1859) Conspectus generum Pimplariarum Sueciae. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, 16, 121–132.
    Kasparyan, D.R. & Khalaim, A.I. (2007) Subfamily Lycorininae. In: Lelej, A.S. (Ed.), Key to the Insects of Russia Far East. Vol. IV. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Dalnauka, Vladivostock, pp. 428–430. [in Russian]
    Momoi, S. (1966) Some new Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) from New Guinea and adjacent areas. Pacific Insects, 8, 152–164.
    Quicke, D.L.J., Laurenne, N.M., Fitton, M.G. & Broad, G.R. (2009) A thousand and one wasps: a 28S rDNA and morphological phylogeny of the Ichneumonidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) with an investigation into alignment parameter space and elision. Journal of Natural History, 43, 1305–1421. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930902807783
    Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. (2014) Revision of the Afrotropical Lycorininae (Ichneumonidae; Hymenoptera) II. Three new Lycorina species and additional distribution records. Zootaxa, 3884 (3), 222–234. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.3.2
    Shaw, M.R. (2004) Notes on the biology of Lycorina triangulifera Holmgren (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Lycorininae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 13, 302–308.
    Sheng, M.-L. & Sun, S.-P. (2009) Insect fauna of Henan, Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae. Science Press, Beijing, 340 pp.
    Sheng, M.-L. & Sun, S.-P. (2014) Ichneumonid Fauna of Liaoning. Science Press. Beijing, China, 464 pp.
    Shimizu, S. & Ogawa, R. (2019) Discovery of the subfamily Lycorininae Cushman & Rohwer, 1920 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Indonesia, based on Lycorina longicauda Shimizu, sp. nov., with a key to the Oriental Lycorina species. Austral Entomology, 58, 148–155. https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12347
    Townes, H.K. (1970) The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 3. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 13, 1–307.
    Uchida, T. & Momoi, S. (1959) On the species of the genera Laufeia and Lycorina occurring in Japan (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Insecta Matsumurana, 22, 82–87.
    Wang, S.F. (1985) Notes on Chinese Lycorina Holmgren (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Sinozoologia, 3, 143–146. [in Chinese with English summary]

  2.