The first record of Brachycyrtinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Finland.

Abstract

<h4>Background</h4>Brachycyrtinae is a small, but distinctive subfamily of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with one widespead species in Europe: <i>Brachycyrtusornatus</i> Kriechbaumer, 1880. We recently collected the species during the faunistic survey of the Urban Biodiversity Parks project in Skanssi, Turku, south-western Finland.<h4>New information</h4>We report the Darwin wasp <i>Brachycyrtusornatus</i> 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 <i>B.ornatus</i> and the subfamily Brachycyrtinae as a whole. Notes on the species' distribution and morphological variation are included.