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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2025-03-12
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A new species of the genus Zatypota Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from South Africa

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, vul. Khmelnytskogo, 15, Kyiv, 01054 Ukraine
Pimpliformes Polysphincta group parasitoids new species Afrotropical region

Abstract

In this paper, a new pimpline species, Zatypota orbitalis sp. nov., from South Africa is described and illustrated. The newly described species is a second species of the genus known from the country and differs from all Afrotropical representatives by the largely ivory coloration of head.

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