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Issue: Vol. 4200 No. 3: 30 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.3.6
Page range: 406–416
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 1

The subfamily Mendesellinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Brazil, with the description of six new species

Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Hymenoptera Biodiversity Ichneumonoidea Neotropical Region Parasitoid

Abstract

In this paper, we study the Mendesellinae wasps from Brazil deposited at Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva da Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil collection. Two new species of Epsilogaster (E. masoni sp. n. and E. whitfieldi sp. n.) and four new species of Mendesella (M. albipleura sp. n., M. itatiaia sp. n., M. japi sp. n., M. yamadai sp. n.) are described and illustrated.

 

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