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Issue: Vol. 4604 No. 2: 14 May 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.2.10
Page range: 381–387
Abstract views: 117
PDF downloaded: 2

A new aberrant Doryctinae genus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from French Guiana

Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 3er. Circuito exterior s/n Cd. Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoacán, A. P. 70-233, C. P 04510., Ciudad de México, México
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya naberezhnaya 1, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00–679 Warsaw, Poland
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O.D. Phylogeny and Taxonomy, Entomology, Vautier street 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Unité d’Entomologie fonctionnelle et évolutive, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Université de Liège, Passage des Déportés 2, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Hymenoptera Neotropics Ichneumonoidea taxonomy parasitoid wasp South America

Abstract

A new genus, Cerritulus gen. nov., with type species, C. forticrura sp. nov., are described from French Guiana based on a single specimen that is considerably distinct morphologically from all known Neotropical genera. The new genus is only partially similar to the enigmatic, monotypic Asian genera Ceylonspathius Belokobylskij and Termitospathius Beloko-bylskij, whose species were collected inside termite nests. We provide colour pictures for the type species of the above three genera.

 

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