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Issue: Vol. 4459 No. 2: 15 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.7
Page range: 327–349
Abstract views: 68
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Parastephanellus Enderlein (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae) revisited, with description of two new species from China

Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, Shenyang 110034, P. R. China
Hymenoptera Stephanidae Parastephanellus key new species reinstated China

Abstract

Two new species of Parastephanellus Enderlein, 1906 (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae) are described and illustrated from China: P. evexus Tan & van Achterberg, sp. n. and P. yixiwui Tan & van Achterberg, sp. n. The male of P. brevicoxalis Hong, van Achterberg & Xu, 2011, is described and the supposed male by Chen et al. (2016) is included in P. evexus. Parastephanellus austrochinensis Belokobylskij, 1995, (former synonym of P. brevistigma Enderlein, 1913) is reinstated. A new key to the species of Parastephanellus Enderlein from China is provided and all species are illustrated.

 

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