taxonID	type	description	language	source
4D4187CBFF8A4E2EFF0E99F945094D61.taxon	description	Synonymy. The available data in NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information: show that P. circumscriptus (Fig. 3 A) and the recently described species, P. pseudocircumscriptus (Fig. 3 B), for which DNA barcodes are available, differ by only 0.78 % in their nucleotide sequences (a difference of 5 base pairs, resulting 99.22 % identity). This minimal genetic divergence, combined with their morphological similarities, indicated that these two taxa are the same species, despite previous differentiation based on certain morphological features (( Abdoli & Pourhaji, 2019). Therefore P. psedocircumscriptus is proposed as a new synonym of P. circumscriptus (Table 3). Notably, it is mentioned that Pholetesor circumscriptus exhibits some variation in colouration, particularly in the legs and metasomal segments, depending on the region, especially in the Old World (Whitfield, 2006).	en	Abdoli, Parisa, Talebi, Ali Asghar, Kavallieratos, Nickolas G., Khosravi, Rasoul, Bidari, Farzad (2024): Contribution to the phylogeny of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28 S rDNA genes, with comments on the identity of Pholetesor circumscriptus (Nees, 1834). Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (4): 965-981, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.10.4.965, URL: https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.4.965
