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Issue: Vol. 4403 No. 3: 5 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.12
Page range: 594–600
Abstract views: 57
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An enigmatic new genus of cyclostome braconid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from New Zealand

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya naberezhnaya 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia; Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00–679 Warsaw, Poland.
Hymenoptera Braconidae Pambolinae Mesostoinae parasitoid new genus and species New Zealand

Abstract

A new enigmatic genus perhaps belonging to the braconid wasp subfamily Pambolinae, Zeachremylus gen. nov. (type species Z. wardi sp. nov.), is described from New Zealand. The taxonomic position of this new genus is discussed.

 

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