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Issue: Vol. 4974 No. 3: 21 May 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-05-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.3.8
Page range: 596–599
Abstract views: 143
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A new species of Melanocryptus Cameron, 1902 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, CEP 13565-905, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil. Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CEP 13565-905, Rodovia Washington Luiz, Km 235, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CEP 13565-905, Rodovia Washington Luiz, Km 235, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Hymenoptera

Abstract

Melanocryptus Cameron, 1902 is a neotropical genus with 11 described species (Yu et al. 2016). The first three species of the genus were originally placed in different genera: Melanocryptus Cameron (1902), Lobocryptus Schmiedeknecht (1904) and Hoplophorina Szépligeti (1916). Townes & Townes (1966) placed these species into a single taxon, Melanocryptus, and included the genus as part of the subtribe Mesostenina (apud Aguiar & Santos, 2015). Despite this original placement, in 1970, Townes created an exclusive subtribe Melanocryptina for the genus.

 

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