Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Study of the Japanese Phygadeuontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 17 New Species Author Watanabe, Kyohei Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, 499 Iryuda, Odawara, Kanagawa 250 – 0031, Japan watanabe-k@nh‛kanagawa-museum‛jp text Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 2021 2021-03-30 50 55 136 https://doi.org/10.32225/bkpmnh.2021.50_55 journal article 300009 10.32225/bkpmnh.2021.50_55 70224806-ca38-47ca-bd8a-63da3ac532f9 2189-6720 12774639 DD695C62-DC2F-4D32-8D33-52648E28661D Genus Surculus Townes, 1970 Surculus Townes, 1970: 88 . Type : Surculus oculatus Townes, 1970 . Original designation. This genus contains a single species, Sur. oculatus Townes, 1970 , from Chile . In this study, I record a new species, Sur. japonicus sp. nov. , from Japan . This is the first record of this genus from Japan , Palearctic region, and Old World, respectively. The distribution of Japanese species is extremely far from Chile , while the character states of Japanese species are “completely” accorded with the character states of this genus proposed by Townes (1970) . Thus, I conclude that Japanese species is belonging to this genus.