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Issue: Vol. 5471 No. 2: 18 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.2.5
Page range: 253-260
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of the female of Labium walkeri Turner & Waterson, 1920 from Australia with new distribution data of L. montivagum (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Labeninae)

Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales; University of Alicante; 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante); Spain
Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales; University of Alicante; 03690 San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante); Spain
Hymenoptera taxonomy parasitoids Darwin wasps

Abstract

The female of Labium walkeri Turner & Waterson, 1920 is described and illustrated for the first time from material collected in Australia, and the male is redescribed. New distribution data of Labium montivagum Turner & Waterson, 1920 are also provided. Distribution maps with all known records of both species are included.

 

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