2025/07/24 by Emil M Österman, M. Juhani Koistinen, Kari Kaunisto +4 · 2 voices
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Forest Insect Ecology and Management #Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny #Plant and animal studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.3897/bdj.13.e161537
openalex publication_date 2025/07/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Brachycyrtinae is a small, but distinctive subfamily of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with one widespead species in Europe: Brachycyrtus ornatus Kriechbaumer, 1880. We recently collected the species during the faunistic survey of the Urban Biodiversity Parks project in Skanssi, Turku, south-western Finland. We report the Darwin wasp Brachycyrtus ornatus as the first record of the subfamily for Finland. We collected a single female specimen with a Malaise trap in Skanssi Biodiversity Park during a period from August to September 2024. This is the northernmost record of B. ornatus and the subfamily Brachycyrtinae as a whole. Notes on the species' distribution and morphological variation are included.