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Issue: Vol. 4881 No. 2: 19 Nov. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-11-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.2.7
Page range: 337–348
Abstract views: 140
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A new species of Boethella Bennett, 2003 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae) from Brazil, redescription of the genus and a key to world species

Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil. Deceased.
Universidade Estadual do Piauí, Av. Joaquina Nogueira de Oliveira, s/n, Aeroporto, CEP 64.980-00,0Corrente, PI, Brazil.
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1A 0C6.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Neotropical region parasitoid taxonomy wasp Hymenoptera

Abstract

Boethella jatai sp. nov. is described from a savanna area in the southeast of Brazil. The genus is redescribed to include the new species and an identification key for world species is provided.

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