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Issue: Vol. 4317 No. 2: 4 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.2.13
Page range: 391–400
Abstract views: 173
PDF downloaded: 7

Notes on Kocourekia Bouček (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae) with description of a new species from China

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China. Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Strasse 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Strasse 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China. College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Fengyuan Road, Beishi District, Kunming, 650201, P. R. China.
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, P. R. China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
Hymenoptera new taxon trap-nest Aculeata parasitoid taxonomy

Abstract

Kocourekia fusis Cao & Zhu sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) is described and illustrated as a parasitoid of aculeate Hymenoptera. Females differ from those of the other two species in Kocourekia by the presence of a malar sulcus, prompting a re-examination of generic limits. A re-definition of Kocourekia is presented, its relationship with other closely allied genera in the Melittobia complex is discussed, and a key to the species of Kocourekia is provided.

 

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