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Issue: Vol. 4254 No. 5: 20 Apr. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.5.6
Page range: 575–583
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Revision of the genus Hormoserphus Townes, 1981 (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupidae), with description of Trachyserphus gen. n. and a new species

Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123 Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow, 117997, Russia.
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies and Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Israel and School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P. Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209 South Africa.
Hymenoptera Proctotrupidae Neotropical Oriental parasitic wasps new genus new species new synonymy new combination identification key

Abstract

Revision of the genus Hormoserphus Townes, 1981 has shown that its type species, Proctotrupes clypeatus Ashmead, 1893 belongs to Oxyserphus Masner, 1961 (Oxyserphus clypeatus (Ashmead, 1893), comb. n. [= Hormoserphus transgressus Townes, 1981, syn. n.]) thus making Hormoserphus a junior synonym of the latter genus. Trachyserphus Kolyada, gen. n. is described to accommodate Oriental Trachyserphus segregatus (Townes, 1981), comb. n. (from Hormoserphus), Central American Trachyserphus defrictus (Townes, 1981), comb. n. (from Sminthoserphus Townes, 1981) and South American Trachyserphus masneri Kolyada, sp. n. Hormoserphus chinensis He & Fan, 1991 and Hormoserphus striatus He & Xu, 2015 are treated as junior synonyms of T. segregatus. An identification key to the species of Trachyserphus is provided.

 

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