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Issue: Vol. 5537 No. 2: 8 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5537.2.8
Page range: 281-287
Abstract views: 133
PDF downloaded: 25

First record of the genus Eusterinx Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from the Afrotropical Region, with description of a new species from South Africa

Forest Research Institute; Karelian Research Centre; Russian Academy of Sciences; 185910; Pushkinskaya St. 11; Petrozavodsk; Russia
Hymenoptera Darwin wasps South Africa taxonomy parasitoids Ischyracis key

Abstract

The genus Eusterinx Förster, 1869 is reported from the Afrotropical region for the first time. The new species E. africana sp. nov. from South Africa belonging to the subgenus Ischyracis is described and illustrated. The subgenus Dallatorrea Ashmead, 1902 is reduced to the synonym Ischyracis Förster, 1869 syn. n. An identification key to all known Ischyracis species of the world fauna is provided.

 

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