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Issue: Vol. 4273 No. 4: 7 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.4.8
Page range: 587–594
Abstract views: 69
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Discovery of the subfamily Rhopalomutillinae (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in China and description of Pherotilla brothersi sp. nov.

Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok-22, 690022, Russia.
Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China
Hymenoptera Mutillids Rhopalomutillinae Pherotilla new species Oriental region China

Abstract

The subfamily Rhopalomutillinae of the family Mutillidae, represented by the genus Pherotilla Brothers, 2015, is newly recorded from China. Pherotilla brothersi Zhou, Lelej & Xu, sp. nov. (China: Yunnan) is described and illustrated. A key to the Oriental species of Pherotilla is given.

 

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