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Issue: Vol. 34 No. 2: August to September 2022
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2022-08-26
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2022.34.2.3
Page range: 42–44
Abstract views: 1173
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Discovery of the genus Muellerella Saussure, 1892 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae: Epyrinae) in Japan

Osaka Museum of Natural History (Guest Researcher), 1-23 Nagai-koen, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 546-0034, Japan
College of Education, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
aculeate wasp Asia distributional checklist.

Abstract

Muellerella indicus (Muesebeck, 1934) of the bethylid subfamily Epyrinae, previously known from India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, was newly recorded from Japan in a sandy beach landscape.

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