Entomologica Fennica


Abstracts of Volume 3 Number 3, 1992

E. B. Yakovlev & V. I. Tobias 1992: Braconidae (Hymenoptera) Parasites of Fungivorous Diptera in Karelia. - Entomologica Fennica 3: 139-148.

A list of 18 species of Braconidae, 15 of the subfamily Alysiinae, reared from 65 mushrooms collected in the forests surrounding Petrozavodsk (Russian South Karelia) is given. Six new species are described by V. I. Tobias: Aspilota karelica sp. n., A. jakovlevi sp. n., A. fungicola sp. n., A. stigmatica sp. n., A. aequabilis sp. n., and A. spiritalis sp. n. The most common probable hosts are larvae of Pegomya (Anthomyidae) and Megaselia (Phoridae).


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