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Issue: Vol. 4247 No. 3: 28 Mar. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.3.10
Page range: 341–345
Abstract views: 95
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A new species of Priochilus Banks, 1944 (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae, Pompilinae) from Panama

Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, 1124 Academic Surge, Davis, California 95616, U.S.A. Correspondence address P. O. Box 6820, Brookings, Oregon 97415, U.S.A.
Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Estafeta Universitaria apartado 00017, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá 0824, Panama.
Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Estafeta Universitaria apartado 00017, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá 0824, Panama.
Hymenoptera Priochilini Priochilus taxonomy Neotropical region spiders

Abstract

Priochilus chrysopygus Wasbauer, Cambra & Añino sp. nov. based on both sexes is described and illustrated. This new species is related to P. splendidulus (Fabricius). A short synopsis of biology in the genus Priochilus is given.

 

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