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Issue: Vol. 4379 No. 1: 13 Feb. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-02-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.1.11
Page range: 145–150
Abstract views: 191
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of the endemic Australian genus Hyptiogaster Kieffer Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae)

Biological Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide SA 5001.
Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Hymenoptera Gasteruptiidae

Abstract

Hyptiogaster arafura sp. nov. is described from Arafura Swamp, Northern Territory, Australia, as the eleventh species of Hyptiogaster Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae). A revised diagnosis of Hyptiogaster is given based on the new species.

 

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