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Issue: Vol. 5209 No. 4: 18 Nov. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-11-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5209.4.4
Page range: 455-462
Abstract views: 250
PDF downloaded: 33

On the occurrence of a Palaearctic species of the genus Aphaereta Foerster (Braconidae, Alysiinae) and description of a new species of the genus Leiophron Nees (Braconidae, Euphorinae) from central India

ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands.
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Post Bag No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bangalore 560 024, Karnataka, India
Hymenoptera Euphorinae Alysiinae India

Abstract

A new species of parasitoid wasp, Leiophron crassivena Gupta & van Achterberg sp. nov. (Braconidae, Euphorinae), is described and illustrated from central India along with first report of the Palaearctic species Aphaereta vondelparkensis van Achterberg et al. (Braconidae, Alysiinae) from India.

 

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