this checklist provides faunistic data for 19 species belonging to 6 ichneumonid wasps: anomaloninae, cremastinae, ctenopelmatinae, mesochorinae, metopiinae, and orthopelmatinae, of which, 3 species from anomaloninae, 4 species and 2 genera (cremastus andtrathala)from cremastinae, 1 species and 1 genus (mesoleius) from ctenopelmatinae, 2 species from metopiinae and 1 species from orthopelmatina...

the list of ichneumonidae (hymenoptera: ichneumonoidea) of iran is updated. until now, 502 species belonging to 189 genera and 24 subfamilies are recorded. two subfamilies, cryptinae and ichneumoninae, are the most species-rich groups, while the subfamilies brachycyrtinae, collyriinae, cylloceriinae, hybrizontinae, mesochorinae, orthocentrinae and orthopelmatinae represented by only one species...

A new bizarre new species of Metopiinae, Triclistus amazopeikkus sp. nov., is described and illustrated. The new species was collected from the lowland Peruvian Amazonia.

the subfamily metopiinae was taxonomically studied in fars and hormozgan provinces during 2011–2013. the specimens were collected by using malaise traps and sweep net. five species were collected and identified, of which three species are recorded for the first time from iran: colpotrochia cincta (scopoli, 1763), exochus suborbitalis schmiedeknecht, 1924, and metopius (peltocarus) turcestanicus...

A new genus of Metopiinae, Ojuelos Khalaim, gen. n., with a single species, Ojuelos juachicus Khalaim & Ruíz-Cancino, sp. n., is described from Jalisco Province in central Mexico. Ojuelos belongs to the group of three genera (Cubus Townes & Townes, Colpotrochia Holmgren and Triclistus Förster) having a high lamella separating the antennal sockets and reaching the median ocellus (this lamella po...

A new species of Seticornuta from Brazil is described and illustrated, the first record of this genus for the Brazilian fauna. This new species was found in a study that aimed to enhance knowledge of the Brazilian fauna of Metopiinae, analysing samples from the hydrographic basin of Rio Mogi Guaçu. A diagnosis, along with distribution information for Seticornuta species are provided.

A new species of Metopiinae, Trieces etuokensis Sheng, sp. n., is described and illustrated. Specimens were reared from two species of Lepidoptera: Bazaria turensis (Ragonot, 1887) (Pyralidae) from Balong, Dulan, Qinghai Province, and an unidentified psychid (Psychidae) from Mukainor, Etuoke, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. The new species is characterized by a yellow face and clypeus,...