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Issue: Vol. 656 No. 1: 27 Sept. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-09-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.656.1.1
Page range: 1–10
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 4

Two new Eastern North American species of the Aleiodes coxalis (Spinola) species-group (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Rogadinae) reared from Geometridae

(SRS) Insect Museum, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071-3354 U.S.A.
(PMM) Cooperating Scientist, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, c/o National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20560 U.S.A. (correspondence address: P. O. Box 384, North Newton, Kansas 67117 U.S.A.)
Hymenoptera Taxonomy descriptions new species Aleiodes Braconidae

Abstract

Two new species in the Aleiodes coxalis species-group are described from eastern North America: Aleiodes itamevorus and Aleiodes maritimus. Both are primary koinobiont parasitoids of Geometridae caterpillars, utilizing hosts from the genera Itame and Semiothisa.

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