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Issue: Vol. 2648 No. 1: 18 Oct. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-10-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2648.1.4
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Endasys Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae) from Mexico

Instituto de Investigación CIBIO, (Centro Iberoamericano de Biodiversidad). Universidad de Alicante. Apdo. Corr. 99, 03080. Alicante, Spain
Instituto de Investigación CIBIO, (Centro Iberoamericano de Biodiversidad). Universidad de Alicante. Apdo. Corr. 99, 03080. Alicante, Spain
Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. 97300. Mérida, Yucatán, México
Hymenoptera Cryptinae Yucatan Reserve taxonomy key

Abstract

A new species of Endasys Förster (Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), E. gibbosus sp. nov., is described. Material was collected with Malaise traps functioning along one year in a dry forest in southeastern Mexico. The new species is similar to E. julianus Luhman, 1990 and E. subclavatus Say, 1835, but differs by having a strongly raised median lobe of mesonotum, with rugulose sculpturing and coarse dense punctures, metapleuron aerolate-rugose, area superomedia with strongly elevated longitudinal wrinkles, and malar space very reduced. A complement is provided to Luhman’s key to the Nearctic species of Endasys.

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