Two new species of Xorides Latreille (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from China, with notes on biology and a key to species known from China

  • Shu-Ping Sun Center for Biological Disaster Prevention and Control, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 58 Huanghe North Street, Shenyang 110034, P.R. China
  • Jun Lü Forest Pest Control and Quarantine Station of Kuandian Manzu Autonomous County, Kuandian, Liaoning 118200, P.R. China
  • Gavin R. Broad Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
  • Tao Li Center for Biological Disaster Prevention and Control, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 58 Huanghe North Street, Shenyang 110034, P.R. China
  • Mao-Ling Sheng Center for Biological Disaster Prevention and Control, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 58 Huanghe North Street, Shenyang 110034, P.R. China https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0141-4697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.890.2255
Keywords: Xoridinae, new species, key, host, taxonomy

Abstract

Two species of Xorides Latreille, 1809 are reported parasitizing wood-boring insects in trunks and relatively larger twigs of Juglans mandshurica Maxim. in Kuandian Manzu Autonomous County, Liaoning, in the Palaearctic part of China. Two new species are described: X. juglanse Sheng, Broad & Sun sp. nov. and X. kuandianense Sheng, Broad & Sun sp. nov. One species, X. sapporensis (Uchida, 1928), was associated with wood-borers in J. mandshurica Maxim. for the first time. A key to the 46 species of Xorides Latreille known from China is provided.

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Published
2023-08-28
How to Cite
Sun, S.-P., Lü, J., Broad, G. R., Li, T., & Sheng, M.-L. (2023). Two new species of Xorides Latreille (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from China, with notes on biology and a key to species known from China. European Journal of Taxonomy, 890(1), 115–135. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.890.2255
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Vol. 890 (2023)
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