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Issue: Vol. 4221 No. 2: 17 Jan. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.2.5
Page range: 215–219
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 1

The genus Acantholyda (Hymenoptera, Pamphiliidae) of Japan: A revised key and a description of the previously unknown female of Acantholyda flaviventris

Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0005 Japan.
Laboratory of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1737 Funako, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0034 Japan.
Hymenoptera Symphyta webspinning sawfly identification

Abstract

Based on a recently collected specimen, we describe the previously unknown female of Acantholyda flaviventris Shinohara, 1991, and give a revised key to the females of the 14 species of the genus distributed in Japan.

 

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