Two new species of the genus Aporinellus Banks, 1911 from China, with a key to species from Palearctic and Oriental regions (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

ABSTRACT

The genus Aporinellus Banks (Pompilidae: Pompilinae: Pompilini) from China is reviewed, with the description of two new species from Yunnan, Henan and Zhejiang, namely Aporinellus magnidentatus Dong et Ma, sp. nov. and Aporinellus maculitibialis Dong et Ma, sp. nov. Two newly recorded species from Yunnan and Inner Mongolia are illustrated, namely, Aporinellus sexmaculatus (Spinola, 1805) and Aporinellus thaianus Tsuneki, 1988b. Additionally, a key to the species of Aporinellus from Palearctic and Oriental regions is provided.

KEYWORDS:

• Pompilidae
• Aporinellus
• new species
• China
• Palearctic and Oriental regions

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank chief editor Dr Przybyłowicz and two anonymous reviewers for suggestions that helped improve this article. Sincere thanks to South China Agricultural University for borrowing the specimens for our laboratory. Thanks to Dr Valery Loktionov (Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia) for preliminary identification of specimens at South China Agricultural University and assistance in literature and classification. Thanks to Colleagues in our laboratory for collecting specimens for this study. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant number 31960112 and the Agricultural Basic Research joint project of Yunnan Province under Grant number 202101BD070001-004.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31960112) and the Agricultural Basic Research joint project of Yunnan Province (202101BD070001-004).