Twenty seven new species of Orthocentrus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Orthocentrinae) with a key to the Neotropical species of the genus

ANU VEIJALAINEN; GAVIN R. BROAD; ILARI E. SÄÄKSJÄRVI

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3768.3.1

Issue: Vol. 3768 No. 3: 26 Feb. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-02-26

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.3.1

Page range: 201–252

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**Twenty seven new species of Orthocentrus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Orthocentrinae) with a key to the Neotropical species of the genus**

ANU VEIJALAINEN⁺⁻
GAVIN R. BROAD⁺⁻
ILARI E. SÄÄKSJÄRVI⁺⁻

Zoological Museum, Section of Biodiversity and Environmental Science, Department of Biology, 20014 University of Turku, FINLAND.

Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.

Zoological Museum, Section of Biodiversity and Environmental Science, Department of Biology, 20014 University of Turku, FINLAND.

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Abstract

We describe 27 new species of parasitoid wasps of the genus Orthocentrus (Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from the Neotropical region, where previously only one species of the genus (O. insularis Ashmead) was known, and provide a key to all described Orthocentrus species of the region. Based on previous studies and additional material that we have seen from the region, describing these species is only an initial attempt to document the Neotropical orthocentrine fauna.