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Issue: Vol. 3427 No. 1: 17 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3427.1.2
Page range: 17–32
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New species of Prototilla Schuster, 1949 from Argentina and diagnoses of the genus based on male and female (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Typhoctinae: Eotillini)

CRILAR-CONICET, Entre Ríos y Mendoza, 5301 Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina
CRILAR-CONICET, Entre Ríos y Mendoza, 5301 Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Av. Angel Gallardo 470, 1405 Buenos Aires, Argentina
School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209 South Africa
Hymenoptera Prototilla Eotilla diagnosis key to species

Abstract

Diagnoses for the genus Prototilla Schuster, 1949 based on males and females, new generic and specific characters, and descriptions of four new species (Prototilla nigra Torréns, Fidalgo, Roig-Alsina & Brothers, sp. nov. and P. intercalata Torréns, Fidalgo, Roig-Alsina & Brothers, sp. nov. based on males, and P. striata Torréns, Fidalgo, Roig-Alsina & Brothers, sp. nov. and P. telteca Torréns, Fidalgo, Roig-Alsina & Brothers, sp. nov. based on females) are provided. Prototilla typhoctoides (Martinez & Fritz, 1974), comb. nov. is transferred from Eotilla. A comparative table between the two genera of the tribe Eotillini and a key to the species of Prototilla are presented.

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