New records of Afrotropical Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
A.I. Khalaim
Abstract. A new data on distribution of 19 species of Tersilochinae (Ichneumonidae) belonging to the genera Allophrys Förster (four species), Aneuclis Förster (five spp.), Diaparsis Förster (eight spp.) and Tersilochus Holmgren (two spp.) in the Afrotropical Region are provided. Tersilochus abyssinicus Khalaim, 2006, syn. nov. is synonymised with T. moestus Holmgren, 1868. The subfamily Tersilochinae is recorded from Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zambia and Yemen for the first time.
Key words: parasitoids, taxonomy, Afrotropical Region, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Tersilochinae, new synonym
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2019, 28(2): 267–276 ▪ Published online 10 December 2019
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2019.28.2.267 ▪ Open full article 
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