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Issue: Vol. 2863 No. 1: 2 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2863.1.4
Page range: 63–68
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Review of the Palaearctic species of Macromyrme Lelej 1984 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) with description of a new species from Egypt

Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, P.O. Box 11884, Nasr City Cairo, Egypt
Department of Classification, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, P.O. Box 11884, Nasr City Cairo, Egypt
Department of Plant Protection, Desert Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture. P.O. Box11753, Mataria, Cairo, Egypt
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, P.O. Box 11884, Nasr City Cairo, Egypt
Hymenoptera Mutillini Macromyrme new species Palaearctic Egypt South Sinai

Abstract

Three Palaearctic species of Macromyrme Lelej 1984 from the tribe Mutillini are reviewed. A new species, M. leleji Soliman, sp. nov. from South Sinai (Egypt) is described.

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