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Issue: Vol. 3323 No. 1: 24 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3323.1.5
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 1

The first record of the genus Uncobracon Papp from China (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

School of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229# North Taibai Rd, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, 58 Huanghe North Street, Shenyang 110034, China
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Dept. Terrestrial Zoology, Postbox 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, 58 Huanghe North Street, Shenyang 110034, China
Hymenoptera Braconidae new record parasitoids China

Abstract

The small genus Uncobracon Papp, 1996 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae), and Uncobracon pappi (Tobias, 2000)comb. nov., are recorded and illustrated from China for the first time. Uncobracon pappi was reared from a borer in the branch of Hippophae rhamnoides Linnaeus ssp. sinensis Rousi. A key to species of the genus Ucobracon is included.

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