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Issue: Vol. 4306 No. 4: 18 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.4.9
Page range: 593–600
Abstract views: 103
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Mesostenus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) from Colombia

University of Manitoba, Department of Entomology, 214 Animal Science Bldg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria—Corpoica. Centro de Investigación El Nus—Vereda ICA, Corregimiento San José del Nus, municipio de San Roque, Antioquia, Colombia
MEFLG Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellin
Hymenoptera Ichneumonoidea South America Neotropics taxonomy parasitic wasps host record Lepidoptera Pyralidae Hypsipyla shoot borer

Abstract

The genus Mesostenus Gravenhorst has sixty one described species worldwide. A new species, Mesostenus hypsipylaphagous Herrera-Florez, sp. n. is described and its host given. This is the first record of Mesostenus from Colombia.

 

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