Spalangia nigra Latreille, 1805

Tselikh, E. V., Lee, J. & Ku, D-S., 2022, New records of the chalcid wasps of the family Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from South Korea, Far Eastern Entomologist 462, pp. 8-19 : 17-18

Spalangia nigra Latreille, 1805

MATERIAL EXAMINED. South Korea: GG, NIAS KOREA, YPT, Mt. Yeogisan,

Seodun, Suwon, 21–23.VIII 1999, 1 ♀, coll. June Yeol Choi, ( NIAS); GN, Geochang-gun ,

Science Museum Natural Enemy, MT, 21.IV–5. V 2021 , 1 ♂, coll. Ku Deokseo, Lee Jaehyeon,

( SMNE); Daedong-ri, Mari-myeon, Geochang-gun, MT, 28.VII–15.VIII 2021, 1 ♀, coll. Lee

Jaehyeon, Jeong Hyojin, ( SMNE).

DISTRIBUTION. Europe, Russia, North Africa, China, South Korea, Japan, North

America, India, South America, Australasia.

BIOLOGY. Primary parasitoid of coleopterans of the family Scarabaeidae , dipterans of the families Anthomyiidae , Calliphoridae , Chloropidae , Muscidae , Phoridae , Sarcophagidae ,

Sepsidae , Syrphidae , Tephritidae , hymenopterans of the family Diprionidae and lepidopterans of the families Coleophoridae , Pyralidae .

The study performed has considerably supplemented our knowledge of the pteromalid fauna of South Korea. Five genera: Capellia Delucchi, 1958 , Globimesosoma Xiao et Hui,

2001, Lyubana Bouček, 1915 , Tachingousa Tselikh, 2018 and Thinodytes Graham, 1956 and twenty-one species: Merismus splendens Graham , Thinodytes cyzicus (Walker) (Miscogasterinae) ; Callitula bicolor Spinola , C. elongata (Thomson) , Capellia cecidomyiae

(Ratzeburg), Chlorocytus circumcinctus Xiao and Huang , Ch. jaculatorius Xiao and Huang ,

Ch. murriensis Graham , Ch. phalaridis Graham , Gastracanthus longigaster Tselikh , Globimesosoma amurense Tselikh , Homoporus apharetus (Walker) , Lyubana longa Xiao et

Huang, Plutothrix rugosa Kamijo , Pteromalus berylli Walker , P. chlorospilus (Walker) , P.

intermedius (Walker) , P. semotus (Walker) , Sphegigaster yunnanensis Ozdikmen , Syntomopus incisus Thomson, Tachingousa trjapitzini Tselikh ( Pteromalinae ) are recorded for the first time for the fauna of South Korea.

Thus, according to our study and published data (Paik, 1978, 1994; Kamijo, Grissell,

1993; Rueda, Roh Ryu, 1997; Shin et al., 2000; Mitroiu, 2011; Cho et al., 2014, Tselikh,

Lee, 2015; Ko, Lee, 2016; Tselikh et al., 2016, 2017; Lee et al., 2019; Tselikh, 2020; Lee,

2021) up to date, the pteromalid fauna of South Korea comprises 111 species belonging to 58

genera of 6 subfamilies.