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Issue: Vol. 5506 No. 1: 5 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.1.8
Page range: 122-128
Abstract views: 204
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A new species of the genus Ceraphron Jurine (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) from India

Centre for DNA Taxonomy; Molecular Systematics Division; Zoological Survey of India; Kolkata; West Bengal; India
Hymenoptera Division; Zoological Survey of India; Kolkata; West Bengal; India
Centre for DNA Taxonomy; Molecular Systematics Division; Zoological Survey of India; Kolkata; West Bengal; India
Centre for DNA Taxonomy; Molecular Systematics Division; Zoological Survey of India; Kolkata; West Bengal; India
Hymenoptera Ceraphronidae Nagaland genitalia

Abstract

Ceraphron initium sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Nagaland state of India based on male specimens. The genitalia of this new species is studied and compared with the closely related species C. semira Salden & Peters and C. thompsoni (Dalla Torre).

 

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