Newly Recorded 25 Species of the Subfamily Pteromalinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from South Korea

Pteromalinae Dalman, 1820 are the largest subfamily in Pteromalidae and currently include 2,073 extant species of 314 genera. This group is probably difficult to define taxonomically. Members of this subfamily are endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera, Diptera and Coleoptera larvae and pupae. Up to date, only 46 species of 30 genera belonging to five subfamilies have been recorded from South Korea. As a result of this study, we reported 25 unrecorded species of 13 genera for the first time from South Korea. Therefore, 71 species of 43 genera in Pteromalinae are recorded from South Korea.