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Issue: Vol. 3409 No. 1: 6 Aug. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-08-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3409.1.3
Page range: 47–57
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 24

Description of a new and redescriptions of two known species of Torymus (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) in Taiwan with a key to Taiwanese species

Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812–8581, Japan
Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
Division of Botanical Garden, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Laboratory of System Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, Saga 840–8502, Japan
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812–8581, Japan
Hymenoptera Torymus flavigastris Torymus aiolomorphi Torymus orientalis Lauraceae Theaceae Cecidomyiidae

Abstract

Torymus flavigastris Matsuo sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) is described as a parasitoid of unidentified gall midges(Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) that induce galls on Litsea acuminata (Blume) Kurata (=Actinodaphne acuminata (Blume)Meisner) (Lauraceae), Machilus pseudolongifolia Hayata (Lauraceae), and Eurya chinensis Robert Brown (Theaceae) inTaiwan. This is the first record of Torymidae associated with gall midges on Lauraceae and Theaceae. Redescriptions of T. aiolomorphi and T. orientalis and a key to species of Torymus known in Taiwan are provided.

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