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Issue: Vol. 2034 No. 1: 13 Mar. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-03-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2034.1.5
Page range: 56–60
Abstract views: 48
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A new subfamily, genus, and species of Cephidae (Hymenoptera) from Australia

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A
Zoologische Staatssammlung, Münchhausenstr. 21, 81247 Munich, Germany
Hymenoptera Cephidae Australcephinae Australcephus stem sawfly

Abstract

Australcephinae, n. subf., is described from Queensland, Australia, based on Australcephus storeyi, n. gen., n. sp. This is the only cephid known from Australia and one of the few from the Southern Hemisphere. A key is given for the three recognized subfamilies of Cephidae.

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