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Issue: Vol. 5471 No. 4: 20 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.4.6
Page range: 473-481
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First record of the family Azotidae from Ecuador, with a description of a new species of Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Azotidae) from the Galapagos Islands

Museo de Entomología. Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo; Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Panamericana sur Km 1 ½; Riobamba; Ecuador; Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biología Comparada de Insectos. Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Instituto de Ciencias Naturales. Bogotá; Colombia
Museo de Entomología. Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo; Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Panamericana sur Km 1 ½; Riobamba; Ecuador; Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biología Comparada de Insectos. Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Instituto de Ciencias Naturales. Bogotá; Colombia
Department of Entomology; University of California; Riverside; California; USA
Museo de Entomología. Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo; Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Panamericana sur Km 1 ½; Riobamba; Ecuador
Hymenoptera parasitoids Galapagos Islands Ablerus byroni hyperparasitoids whiteflies scale insects biodiversity parasitoid biology

Abstract

Azotidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) is a small family (1 genus, 92 species) comprised primarily of hyperparasitoids of species of Hymenoptera that target whiteflies and scale insects. In the present study, we provide the first record of the genus Ablerus Howard, 1898 (=Azotus Howard 1898) from the Galapagos Islands, based on material collected in a survey of Hymenoptera across the archipelago’s main islands. One new species, Ablerus byroni sp. n. is described and illustrated.

 

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