New species and records of Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic Venturia Schrottky, 1902 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae)

Abstract

Five new species of Venturia Schrottky, 1902 are described from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions, Venturia aurantia sp. nov. from South Africa, Venturia erythrina sp. nov. from Tanzania, Venturia ignea sp. nov. from Ghana, Venturia veruta sp. nov. from Uganda, and Venturia biroi sp. nov. from India. The hitherto unknown male sex of Venturia peringueyi (Cameron, 1906), a South African species, is also described. Additionally, the first records of Venturia aquila Vas, 2019 and Venturia crassicaput (Morley, 1926) from South Africa, and Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst, 1829) from Cyprus, Crete and Tanzania are given.

Keywords

• ichneumon wasp
• species description
• distribution
• old world.