Contribution to the Siberian Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). Part 1.

Abstract

Summary. An annotated catalogue of 138 species and three subspecies of Siberian Chrysididae, based on the materials collected by the Russian co-authors in Western and Eastern Siberia (in 2007, 2010, as well as other specimens housed at the Zoological Institute of St. Petersburg (Russia) and in private collections, is given in two issues. Totally 21 species are newly recorded from Russia and 40 from Siberia. Besides 19 species are recognized as new, eight of them are described in the first part of paper: Euchroeus victorius Rosa, sp. n., Pseudochrysis gengiskhan Rosa, sp. n., Chrysis inconsueta Rosa, sp. n., Ch. proauriceps Rosa, sp. n., Ch. sibirica Rosa, sp. n., Ch. pavesii Rosa, sp. n., Philoctetes cynthiae Rosa, sp. n., Ph. lyubae Rosa, sp. n.; and eleven species will be described in the second part.

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