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Issue: Vol. 1818 No. 1: 7 Jul. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-07-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1818.1.2
Page range: 56–64
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Redescription of Polynemula, with description of a new species of Polynema (Doriclytus) from Argentina (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)

Entomology Research Museum, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
Museo de La Plata, División Entomología, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hymenoptera Mymaridae Polynemula Polynema Doriclytus taxonomy

Abstract

The little known Neotropical genus Polynemula Ogloblin (Mymaridae) and its type species P. rufosignata Ogloblin are redescribed based on the type material and a recently collected female specimen from Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. A new species of Polynema Haliday from the newly defined pallidiventre species group of Polynema (Doriclytus Foerster), P. (D.) nupogodi sp. n., is described from Argentina and the only other species in this new group, P. (D.) pallidiventre (Ogloblin), is redescribed. A key to the two species of this group is provided.

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