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Issue: Vol. 4272 No. 2: 29 May 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.2.9
Page range: 285–290
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Ephuta icema Casal, 1969 and its host Auplopus subaurarius Dreisbach, 1963 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Pompilidae) from Brazil

Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Estafeta Universitaria Apartado 00017, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá 0824, Panama.
Laboratório de Biologia e Ecologia de Vespas e Abelhas, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Rua Simeão Camargo Varela de Sá 03, Vila Carli, 85040-080, Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil.
Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Estafeta Universitaria Apartado 00017, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá 0824, Panama.
Laboratório de Biologia e Ecologia de Vespas e Abelhas, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Rua Simeão Camargo Varela de Sá 03, Vila Carli, 85040-080, Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil.
Laboratório de Biologia e Ecologia de Vespas e Abelhas, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Rua Simeão Camargo Varela de Sá 03, Vila Carli, 85040-080, Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil.
Hymenoptera Mutillidae Pompilidae

Abstract

The male and female of Ephuta icema Casal, 1969 are reared from the host Auplopus subaurarius Dreisbach, 1963 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) that allow to unit both sexes for this mutillid and describe hitherto unknown male. A review of all the previous host records for the genus Ephuta Say, 1836 is given.

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