Type specimens from the collection of Hymenoptera deposited in Department Entomology, National Museum, Prague are currently being catalogued. In this part catalogue dealing with family Braconidae, we present precise information about 27 taxa belonging to subfamilies Brachistinae (1 species), Cheloninae Doryctinae Euphorinae (2 Gnamptodontinae Lysiterminae Microgastrinae Opiinae (15 species) and...

the parasitoid wasps of the genera leiophron nees and euphorus nees were studied in northern iran (guilan, mazandaran and alborz provinces). the specimens were collected using malaise traps from different habitats during 2010-2011. four species of both genera were collected and identified, of which three species, euphorus pallidistigma (curtis), e. similis (curtis) and leiophron fascipennis (ru...

the genus syntretus foerster of the subfamily euphorinae (hym.: braconidae) is recorded from iran for the first time. the specimens were collected using malaise traps from different habitats of northern provinces during 2010 and 2011. two species, s. ocularis van achterberg & haeselbarth and s. xanthocephalus (marshall) were collected and identified. a brief discussion about diagnostic char...

A new doryctine species, Doryctes (Doryctes) planus Belokobylskij et Ku, sp. n., is described from South Korea. Eighteen species the subfamilies Rhyssalinae (1), Doryctinae (8), Hormiinae (2), Pambolinae (3), Rogadinae Opiinae Helconinae and Euphorinae (1) are recorded fauna of Korean Peninsula for first time. Genera Aulosaphoides van Achterberg, 1995, Aulosaphanes Belokobylskij, 2004, Conobreg...

The 31 species of Microctonus Wesmael that occur in North America are taxonomically treated. Six are described as new: M. cappilicrus, M. gouleti, M. passi, M. portalensis, M. rotundatus, and M. sharkeyi. Microctonus zimmermanni Loan is considered a junior synonym of M. brevipetiolatus (Thomson) and M. barri Loan is considered a junior synonym of M. muesebecki Loan. The European Perilitus altic...

the fauna of the braconid subfamilies euphorinae, homolobinae, macrocentrinae and rogadinae were studied in kerman province. specimens were collected using malaise traps and sweeping net during 2013–2014. a total of 14 species and eight genera were collected and identified. among the collected material, aleiodes (chelonorhogas) ruficornis (herrich-schaffer, 1838) is a new record for the fauna o...

A new gregarious braconid parasitoid wasp of Euphorinae, Meteorus stellatus Fujie, Shimizu & Maeto sp. nov. , is described from the Ryukyu Islands in Japan, based on an integrative taxonomic framework. The phylogenetic position species within Meteorini was analyzed DNA fragments mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) and nuclear 28S rDNA genes. recovered as a member versicolor compl...