A taxonomic review of the genus Exochus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae) from South Korea with descriptions of ten new species Author Choi, Jin-Kyung Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea; Author Kolarov, Janko Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Author Lee, Jong-Wook Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea; text Journal of Natural History 2016 2016-05-31 50 2327 2367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1197335 journal article 21247 10.1080/00222933.2016.1197335 9e8a020a-c322-48a0-935d-ae3ff9c1f1c2 1464-5262 3993034 B28700A7-9CA7-4AE7-9816-9C8F4CD46160 Exochus mitratus Gravenhorst, 1829 ( Figures 4l , 7l ) Exochus mitratus Gravenhorst, 1829: 350 . Exochus a ffi nis Holmgren 1858: 305 – 394 . Exochus australis Thomson 1894: 2137 . Lectotype : female; Type depository: ZIN. Exochus pseuda ffi nis Strobl 1903: 3 – 100 . Type: male. Exochus paradoxus Schmiedeknecht 1924: 103 – 112 . Exochus punctifer Schmiedeknecht 1924: 103 – 112 . Type : female. Specimens examined ( South Korea ) 1 male , GB Gyongsan-si, Yeungnam Univ., 4 May 1988 , J.H. Kwon ; 1 male , ditto, 29 April 1989 , K .J. Hwang . Diagnosis Male. Body length 8.5 mm . Antenna with 29 flagellomeres. Head broad and convex, upper face with long projection and very strongly recurved ( Figure 4l ); between antennal sockets without vertical ridge; dorsal margin of eyes with round small spots. Malar space black. Pronotum sunken. Scutellum and postscutellum black. Propodeum with area superomedia incomplete ( Figure 7l ); area externa and area dentipara with moderate hairs; spiracle of propodeum oval; metapleuron glabrous except lower area. Vein cu-a of hindwing intercepted at lower 0.25, with vein Cu1 . Tergite 1 with short dorsal longitudinal carina, reach central area of tergite 1, up-curved in basal area; between dorsal longitudinal carinae without hair. Tergite 3 with epipleuron semicircular. Distribution South Korea (new record), Austria , Azerbaijan, Belgium , Bulgaria , Canada , Canary Islands, China , Czech Republic , Finland , France , Georgia, Germany , Hungary , Iran , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Kazakhstan , Latvia , Lithuania , Malta , Moldova , Mongolia , the Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russia , Spain , Sweden , Tunisia , Turkey , USA , Ukraine , United Kingdom , Yugoslavia .