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Issue: Vol. 4701 No. 1: 26 Nov. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4701.1.7
Page range: 91–96
Abstract views: 120
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A new species of Wesmaelia Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae:Euphorinae) from China

Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture, Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province,350002, China.
Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture, Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province,350002, China.
Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture, Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province,350002, China.
Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture, Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province,350002, China.
Hymenoptera Helorimorphini taxonomy identification South Asia key

Abstract

A new species of the genus Wesmaelia Foerster, 1863, Wesmaelia longius sp. n. is described and illustrated from the Palaearctic Region of China. A key to the Chinese species of the genus Wesmaelia is provided based on the key of Papp (1995).

 

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