Four new species of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Mexico

SVETLANA NIKOLAEVNA MYARTSEVA; ENRIQUE RUÍZ-CANCINO; JUANA MARÍA CORONADO-BLANCO

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3641.3.2

Issue: Vol. 3641 No. 3: 24 Apr. 2013

Type: Article

Published: 2013-04-24

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.3.2

Page range: 223–232

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Four new species of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Mexico

SVETLANA NIKOLAEVNA MYARTSEVA⁺⁻
ENRIQUE RUÍZ-CANCINO⁺⁻
JUANA MARÍA CORONADO-BLANCO⁺⁻

Biodiversity parasitic wasp parasitoid new species North America

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Abstract

Four new species of Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from Mexico are described—E. albata Myartseva sp. n. (State of Nuevo León), E. barracas Myartseva sp. n. (State of Baja California Sur), E. chichenitza Myartseva sp. n. (State of Yucatán) and E. elenae Myartseva sp. n. (State of Tamaulipas). A key to the species of Encarsia in Mexico pub-lished in 2012 is modified to include the newly described species.