A new genus and species of subfamily Banchinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from China

Abstract

A new genus, Verruca Sheng Sun gen. nov., of the ichneumonid tribe Atrophini, subfamily Banchinae is described for one new species, Verruca dentia Sheng Sun, sp. nov. The species was collected from Shandong and Jiangxi Provinces, situated near the northern border of the Oriental part of China. The new genus is placed within the existing key to genera. A key to the genera of Atrophini, with the apical portion of the ovipositor with ridges, is also provided.

A remarkable rediscovery and range extension from Australia to South India with the description of two new species of the genus Shortia Gauld, 1984 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

“…The subfamily is divided into three tribes, Banchini Wesmael, 1845, Glyptini Cushman & Rohwer, 1920and Atrophini Seyrig, 1932(Gauld 1984aBroad et al 2018). Only 205 species of banchines in 20 genera are known from the Oriental region (Yu et al 2016;Sheng et al 2018;Watanabe & Sheng 2018;Riedel 2022) and among these, 15 genera and 82 species have been reported from India (Yu et al 2016). Several banchine genera such as Glypta Gravenhorst, 1829 (454 spp.…”

Supplementary material 1 from: Berry TR, van Noort S (2020) Revision of the endemic Afrotropical genus Tetractenion (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with an identification key to genera of Banchinae for the region. ZooKeys 1007: 49-84. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1007.55543

“…The group is usually well represented in all faunas and amongst the most commonly collected of all ichneumonids (Gauld et al 2002;Broad et al 2011). There are roughly 1800 described species and 66 genera of Banchinae currently recognized (Khalaim and Ruíz-Cancino 2012;Maeto 2012, 2014;Broad 2014;Choi et al 2015;Reynolds Berry and van Noort 2016;Herrera-Florez 2017;Vas 2017;Watanabe 2017Watanabe , 2018Watanabe , 2020Kasparyan and Kulitzky 2018;Li et al 2018;Sheng et al 2018;Watanabe and Sheng 2018;Kang et al 2019Kang et al , 2020Yu et al 2020). With the banchine fauna poorly known for many areas of the world, and a number of undescribed genera and species from tropical regions preserved in museum collections, the number of species is certainly far greater (Broad et al 2011).…”