Taxonomy of the family Bethylidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from Cambodia and adjacent countries. I. Genus Odontepyris Kieffer (Bethylidae: Bethylinae) with four new species and two new records

Abstract

Six Odontepyris species are taxonomically treated. Four new species, O. acutus Lim, sp. nov., O. cardamomensis Lim, sp. nov. and O. concavus Lim, sp. nov. from Cambodia, and O. prolatus Lim, sp. nov. from Cambodia and Thailand are described. Odontepyris muesebecki Krombein from Cambodia, India and Thailand and O. formosicola Terayama from Cambodia, are newly recorded. Descriptions for four new species, diagnoses for two newly recorded species, and photographs of diagnostic characteristics for each species are presented. A key to Cambodian species of Odontepyris is also provided with their distributional records in Oriental region. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6BA54D20-8EA6-4F3A-9798-D1BDE9833B0B

Keywords:

• Bethylidae
• new record
• new species
• Odontepyris Kieffer
• Oriental region

Acknowledgements

We are deeply grateful to Mr Kry Masphal (Forestry Administration, Cambodia) for his kind help managing malaise traps in Cambodia. We are also indebted to Dr Matthias Buck (The Royal Alberta Museum, Alberta, Canada) for providing an opportunity to examine many interesting Oriental bethylid wasps; Dr Brian Harris (Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA) for providing type material of O. quadrifoveatus Krombein; Dr David G. Notton (British Museum of Natural History, London, UK) for providing type materials of O. muesebecki Krombein, O. mandibularis Krombein and O. ventralis Krombein for this study; and Mr Sang-Wook Park for providing many detailed pictures of type specimens, which are being deposited in NIAES (National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan). The authors are indebted to Dr Sung-Hoon Jung, Min-Young Kim, So-Ra Kim, Seung-Gwan Shin and Hwal-Ran Choi for helping to collect bethylid samples of Cambodia. This work was supported by the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) grant funded by the Korea government (ME).