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Issue: Vol. 5336 No. 4: 24 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.4.9
Page range: 590-596
Abstract views: 322
PDF downloaded: 19

A new species of Bracon (Braconidae: Braconinae) from central Mexico, probable parasitoid of a weevil that feeds on roots of Argemone ochroleuca Sweet (Papaveraceae)

Laboratorio de Interacciones y Procesos Ecológicos; Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales; Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Universidad de La Pampa; Santa Rosa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); Argentina
Colección Nacional de Insectos; Instituto de Biología; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 3er Circuito Exterior s/n; Cd. Universitaria; Copilco; Coyoacán; Ciudad de México; Mexico
Laboratorio de Interacciones y Procesos Ecológicos; Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales; Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Colección Nacional de Insectos; Instituto de Biología; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 3er Circuito Exterior s/n; Cd. Universitaria; Copilco; Coyoacán; Ciudad de México; Mexico
Hymenoptera scrub Papaveraceae roots weevil-specialist Braconinae

Abstract

A new species of the braconine genus Bracon (subgenus Bracon), B. hidalguensis sp. nov., is described from the locality of Tasquillo in the state of Hidalgo, central Mexico. The new species was reared from roots of Argemone ochroleuca Sweet (Papaveraceae), where specimens of the weevil species Conotrachelus leucophaeus (Champion) (Curculionidae) were also obtained and thus probably it represents its host. The new Bracon species was characterised molecularly with DNA barcoding (COI) and a fragment of the variable D2–3 region of the nuclear ribosomal 28S gene.

 

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