Surculus Townes, 1970

Watanabe, Kyohei, 2021, Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Study of the Japanese Phygadeuontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 17 New Species, Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 50, pp. 55-136 : 75

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.32225/bkpmnh.2021.50_55
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DD695C62-DC2F-4D32-8D33-52648E28661D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12769958
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scientific name	Surculus Townes, 1970
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Genus Surculus Townes, 1970 View in CoL View at ENA

Surculus Townes, 1970: 88 View in CoL . Type: Surculus oculatus Townes, 1970 View in CoL . Original designation.

This genus contains a single species, Sur. oculatus Townes, 1970 View in CoL , from Chile. In this study, I record a new species, Sur. japonicus sp. nov., from Japan. This is the first record of this genus from Japan, Palearctic region, and Old World, respectively.

The distribution of Japanese species is extremely far from Chile, while the character states of Japanese species are “completely” accorded with the character states of this genus proposed by Townes (1970). Thus, I conclude that Japanese species is belonging to this genus.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Ichneumonidae