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Issue: Vol. 4109 No. 2: 6 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.2.9
Page range: 245–250
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 1

A NEW SPECIES OF Bolivar Zaldívar-Riverón et Rodríguez-Jiménez (BRACONIDAE, DORYCTINAE) FROM BRAZIL, WITH NEW RECORDS OF THE AMAZONIAN B. ecuadorensis Zaldívar-Riverón et López-Estrada

Laboratório de Zoologia, Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Unidade de Passos, Bloco 7, Rua Sabará, 164, CEP 37900-004, Passos, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva (DEBE), Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Caixa Postal 676, 13565-905, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Avenida André Araujo, 2936, CEP 69060-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil.
Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 3er. circuito exterior s/n Cd. Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoacán, A. P. 70-233, C.P. 04510., D.F., México.
Amazon Neotropics cyclostome braconids geographic distribution taxonomy Hymenoptera

Abstract

A new species of the doryctine genus Bolivar (Braconidae), B. brasiliensis sp. nov., is described from the Atlantic coastal region in Brazil. New records and taxonomic notes of the Amazonian B. ecuadorensis Zaldívar-Riverón et López-Estrada are also provided.

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