Two new species of genus Ateleute Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae) with a key to the Oriental species

Mao-Ling Sheng; Gavin R Broad; Shu-Ping Sun

doi:10.3897/zookeys.141.1912

Two new species of genus Ateleute Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae) with a key to the Oriental species

Zookeys. 2011:(141):53-64. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.141.1912. Epub 2011 Oct 28.

Authors

Mao-Ling Sheng¹, Gavin R Broad, Shu-Ping Sun

Affiliation

¹ General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, 58 Huanghe North Street, Shenyang 110034, P. R. China.

Abstract

Three species of Ateleute Förster 1869 belonging to the tribe Cryptini of the subfamily Cryptinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), collected from Jiangxi Province, China, are reported, of which two are new for science: Ateleute ferruginea Sheng, Broad & Sun, sp. n. and AAteleute zixiensis Sheng, Broad & Sun, sp. n. One, AAteleute densistriata (Uchida, 1955), was previously known from China and Japan. A key to the species of genus Ateleute known in the Oriental Region is provided.

Keywords: Ateleute; Key; Oriental Region; Phygadeuontini; new species; taxonomy.