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Issue: Vol. 4462 No. 2: 27 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.6
Page range: 245–250
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Zethus Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Zethinae) from Northeast Brazil, with notes on morphology and distributional records of Z. alessandroi Lopes

Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil
Laboratório de Aculeata, Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
Hymenoptera Eumeninae potter wasps species-group taxonomy

Abstract

Zethus giseleae new species is described from Maranhão State, Northeastern Brazil. The species fits into the Z. hilarianus species-group which was partially revised only recently, and a set of features from both external morphology and male genitalia allows readily separation from closely related taxa. Notes on morphology and collecting records of Z. alessandroi are also provided, extending its range within the Southeast Amazon domain.

 

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