Rhaphitelus maculatus Walker, 1834

Tselikh, Ekaterina V., Kosheleva, Oksana V., Ku, Deok-Seo, Lee, Jaehyeon & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2025, The hymenopteran parasitoid complex (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Eulophidae, Pteromalidae) of the pine bark beetle Cryphalus fulvus Niisima, 1908 (Curculionidae, Scolytinae) in South Korea, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 98, pp. 637-652 : 637-652

Rhaphitelus maculatus Walker, 1834

Fig. 18

Rhaphitelus maculatus Walker, 1834: 179. Holotype female (Natural History Museum, London, not examined).

Note.

For synonymy, see UCD Community (2025).

Material examined.

Other material: South Korea • 1 ♀; Gyeongsangnam-do, Geochang-gun, Namsang-myeon, Jeoncheok-ri , 35°37'15.3"N, 127°57'51.4"E, reared from Cryphalus fulvus Niisima on Pinus densiflora Siebold & Zucc. , 22.VI.2023, coll. E. Tselikh, J. Lee, S. Belokobylskij; ( NIBR) .

Distribution.

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Republic of Korea (new record), Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekistan ( Tselikh 2010, 2019; UCD Community 2025).

Biology.

Primary ectoparasitoids of beetles from the subfamily Scolytinae ( Curculionidae ); possible secondary parasitoids of Braconidae ( UCD Community 2025) . The bark beetle Cryphalus fulvus Niisima is reported as a host for Rhaphitelus maculatus Walker for the first time.

Remarks.

The genus Rhaphitelus Walker, 1834 is recorded here for the first time for the Korean Peninsula.

Figures

Figures 17–24. Sycosoter hattorii (Kono & Watanabe, 1935), not type female (17); Rhaphitelus maculatus Walker, 1834 (18); Pediobius moldavicus Bouček, 1965 (19); Roptrocerus xylophagorum (Ratzeburg, 1844) (20); Allocricellius armandii Yang, 1996 (21–24). 17–21 Body, lateral view 22 head, frontal view 23 fore wing 24 and scutellum and propodeum, dorsal view.