Discovery of the rare genus Blacometeorus Tobias in China 63 Discovery of the rare genus Blacometeorus Tobias, 1976 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Blacinae) in the Oriental part of China, with description of a new species Hong-fei Chai † , Jun-hua He ‡ , Xue-xin Chen § State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, 268 Kaixuan Road, Hangzhou 310029, China † urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:1802F223-EA55-45BA-A5F3-22EB0DB09887 ‡ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:CDFF38D9-E9AE-4C8F-99CE-23151D3878F3 § urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:0054AC5F-7F6D-4811-A560-90983889C861 Corresponding author: Xue-xin Chen (xxchen@zju.edu.cn) Academic editor: Kees van Achterberg |  Received 24 March 2010  |  Accepted 04 August 2010  |  Published 29 October 2010 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8C1F60CF-B24C-4122-BB3F-895515676CEC Citation: Chai H, He J, Chen X (2010) Discovery of the rare genus Blacometeorus Tobias, 1976 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Blacinae) in the Oriental part of China, with description of a new species. 65: 63–67. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.65.451 Abstract Te rare genus Blacometeorus Tobias, 1976 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Blacinae) is discovered in Yunnan, China, and a new species, B. sinicus Chai & Chen, sp. n. is described and illustrated. It represents the frst record of this genus both for China and Oriental region. A key to genus Blacometeorus is updated. Keywords Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Blacinae, Blacometeorus sinicus, Oriental, new species Introduction Te Blacinae Foerster is a cosmopolitan subfamily of Braconidae (Hymenoptera) with fve tribes, 14 genera and 207 species known in the world (Yu et al. 2005). Blacometeorus Tobias, 1976 is the only genus of the Blacini with vein r-m of fore wing present (Tobias, 1976; van Achterberg, 1988). Four species of Blacometeorus are reported to date, i.e., B. brevicauda (Hellén, 1958), B. intermedius Tobias, 1976, B. pusillus (Hellén, 1958) ZooKeys 65: 63–67 (2010) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.65.451 www.pensoftonline.net/zookeys Copyright Hong-fei Chai et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. RESEARCH ARTICLE Launched to accelerate biodiversity research A peer-reviewed open-access journal