New Records of Subfamily Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan with Description of a New Species
New Records of Subfamily Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan with Description of a New Species
Mian Sabahatullah* and Maqsood Shah
ABSTRACT
Genus Opiognathus, of the subfamily Opiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) is recorded for the first from Pakistan. A new species Opiognathus nitidus M. Sabahatullah & Shah sp.nov. is described and illustrated. Five species of the subfamily Opiinae are reported for the first time from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The newly reported species are Areotetes carinuliferus, Indiopius fischeri, Phaedrotoma biharensis, Phaedrotoma angiclypeata and Xynobius maculipennis. New distributional data for already reported species Diachasmimorpha longicaudata are also provided. The study raises the number of species of the subfamily to 9 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
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December 2022
Vol. 38, Iss. 4, Pages 1160-1546
