Probles Foerster , 1869

Khalaim, Andrey I., Balueva, Ekaterina N., Kim, Ki-Beom & Lee, Jong-Wook, 2013, Three new species of the genus Probles Foerster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Tersilochinae) from South Korea, ZooKeys 348, pp. 77-88 : 78

Genus Probles Foerster, 1869

Type species.

Probles melanarius Szépligeti, 1895 (= Porizon erythrostomus Gravenhorst, 1829).

The genus belongs to the Tersilochus genus-group ( Horstmann 1981) by having the first metasomal segment with a furrow between the glymma and the ventral part of the postpetiole, and the propodeum usually has a basal area (rarely with basal keel). Probles differs from other genera in this genus-group by the well-developed foveate groove of the mesopleuron, which is more or less upcurved anteriorly, elongate thyridial depression, weakly curved hind tibial spurs, and simple tarsal claws. Additional characters for distinguishing Probles from other Korean tersilochine genera are given in the key published in our previous paper ( Balueva et al. 2013).