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Issue: Vol. 4457 No. 2: 8 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.2.9
Page range: 332–338
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 1

Four new species of the digger wasp genus Ammophila W. Kirby, 1798 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) from Central Asia

Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia.
Hymenoptera Apoidea Sphecidae new species Palearctic region

Abstract

Four new species of Ammophila from Central Asia are described and illustrated: A. antoninae (Tajikistan), A. kondarensis (Tajikistan), A. nemkovi (Uzbekistan), and A. yaroslavi (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan).

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