Review of the Palaearctic species of Ismaridae Thomson, 1858 (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea)

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Review of the Palaearctic species of Ismaridae Thomson, 1858 (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea)Chang-Jun KIM 1, David G. NOTTON 2, Frode ØDEGAARD 3 & Jong-Wook LEE 4,*1 Division of Gardens and Education, Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, 11186, Republic of Korea.2 Department of Life Sciences, Insects Division, Darwin Centre - room 315,The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom.3 Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Høgskoleringen 9, 7034 Trondheim, Norway.4 Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Republic of Korea.* Corresponding author: jwlee1@ynu.ac.kr1 Email: hades821@gmail.com2 Email: d.notton@nhm.ac.uk3 Email: frode.odegaard@nina.no1urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:484B44D3-C017-4D3C-AEE6-9384A10A59152urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:2E452EF2-703C-47C0-8432-6AB9C05AC06A3urn:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:480435DB-5D54-458A-B0D8-01C59B057E994urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:29B0EAD6-5F06-46DA-A384-69FDE8CBEF34Abstract. The Palaearctic species of Ismaridae Thomson, 1858 are reviewed. Thirteen species of Ismaridae are recognized from the Palaearctic. Five species are described as new: Ismarus brevis Kim & Lee sp. nov. from the Russian Far East and South Korea; I.distinctus Kim, Notton & Ødegaard sp. nov. from Norway and the United Kingdom; I. excavatus Kim & Lee sp. nov. from China, Japan and South Korea; I. similis Kim, Notton & Lee sp. nov. from the United Kingdom and I. tripotini Kim & Lee sp. nov. from South Korea. Ismarus apicalis Kolyada & Chemyreva, 2016 is newly recorded from China, France, Japan and South Korea; I. dorsiger (Haliday, 1831) from France, Montenegro, Norway, South Korea and Switzerland; I. flavicornis (Thomson, 1858) from Bulgaria and Norway; I. grandisAlekseev, 1978, I. halidayi Förster, 1850 and I. multiporus Kolyada & Chemyreva from Japan and South Korea; I. rugulosus Förster, 1850 from Austria and I. spinalis Kolyada & Chemyreva, 2016 from China, Japan and South Korea. An identification key to all species found in the Palaearctic region is presented.