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Issue: Vol. 2622 No. 1: 23 Sep. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-09-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2622.1.2
Page range: 42–48
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Hexacola Foerster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae), parasitoid of Lemnaphila neotropica Lizarralde de Grosso (Diptera: Ephydridae)

División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Hymenoptera Hexacola lemnaphilae Eucoilinae parasitoid wasp miner fly least duckweed biological control

Abstract

A new parasitoid wasp species, the eucoiline Hexacola lemnaphilae Gaddi & Díaz, is described. Specimens were reared from pupae of Lemnaphila neotropica Lizarralde de Grosso (Diptera: Ephydridae), a shore fly that mines least duckweed, Lemna minuta Kunth (Lemnaceae); the material examined was collected in Berisso (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and is housed in the collection of the División Entomología of the Museo de La Plata, Argentina. Photographs of diagnostic characters and data about the ecological and economic importance of these organisms are included.

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