Abstracts of Volume 20 Number 2, 2009

Buhl, P. N. 2009: New or little known Palaearctic species of Platygastrinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae). III. - Entomol. Fennica 20: 65-83.

Fifteen new species of Platygastrinae are described and their affinities discussed, viz. Platygaster alpina sp. n. (Austria), P. bayankhongorensis sp. n. (Mongolia), P. breviscapa sp. n. (Croatia), P. kazakhstanica sp. n. (Kazakhstan), P. novemarticulata sp. n. (Mongolia), P. platygaster sp. n. (Kyrgyzstan), P. schwarzi sp. n. (Austria), P. sylveni sp. n. (Sweden), P. viklundi sp. n. (Sweden), Pyrgaspis striativentris sp. n. (Mongolia), Synopeas latvianum sp. n. (Latvia), S. microsculpturatum sp. n. (Mongolia), S. pinnei sp. n. (Latvia), S. schwarzi sp. n. (Mongolia), and S. wangsjoi sp. n. (Sweden). The hitherto unknown females of Platygaster aberrans Buhl, 1998 and Synopeas hansseni Buhl, 1998, and the hitherto unknown male of Synopeas acutispinus Buhl, 1998, are described.