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Issue: Vol. 5403 No. 2: 19 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5403.2.6
Page range: 279-286
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Schizosthetus Athias-Henriot, 1982 (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae): the description of a new species from China

Shandong Province Higher Education Collaborative Innovation Center for Comprehensive Management of Agricultural and Forestry Crop Diseases and Pests in the Yellow River Basin; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests; Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Shandong Agricultural University; Taian; Shandong; China
Shandong Province Higher Education Collaborative Innovation Center for Comprehensive Management of Agricultural and Forestry Crop Diseases and Pests in the Yellow River Basin; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests; Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Shandong Agricultural University; Taian; Shandong; China
Shandong Province Higher Education Collaborative Innovation Center for Comprehensive Management of Agricultural and Forestry Crop Diseases and Pests in the Yellow River Basin; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests; Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Shandong Agricultural University; Taian; Shandong; China
Shandong Province Higher Education Collaborative Innovation Center for Comprehensive Management of Agricultural and Forestry Crop Diseases and Pests in the Yellow River Basin; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests; Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Shandong Agricultural University; Taian; Shandong; China
Shandong Province Higher Education Collaborative Innovation Center for Comprehensive Management of Agricultural and Forestry Crop Diseases and Pests in the Yellow River Basin; Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests; Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Shandong Agricultural University; Taian; Shandong; China
Parasitinae taxonomy key China

Abstract

A new species, Schizosthetus baixuelii sp. nov., is described based on females from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China. A key to the known species of the genus is presented.

 

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