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Issue: Vol. 2175 No. 1: 4 Aug. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-08-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2175.1.1
Page range: 1–18
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 19

Review of the Malagasy Anthobosca, the Bizarre and the Sublime (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Anthoboscinae)

Bohart Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomology, One Shields Ave., University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Hymenoptera Tiphiidae Anthobosca Madagascar new species key

Abstract

The Malagasy tiphiids in the genus Anthobosca are revised, with description of eight new species, including fisheri, harinhalai, mahajangaensis, castanea, namorokaensis, nigrimacula, toliaraensis and hallucigenia spp. nov. There are fourteen described species of Anthobosca recorded from Madagascar including the new ones below. A key to species, distribution maps and illustrations are given.

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