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Issue: Vol. 4277 No. 1: 15 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.11
Page range: 137–143
Abstract views: 73
PDF downloaded: 56

Two new species of Apteroscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) from India

National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P.B. No. 2491, Hebbal, Bangalore, India 560024.
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, 1911 SW 34th St., Gainesville, FL 32608, USA.
Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghats Regional Centre, Calicut, Kerala-673006, India.
National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, P.B. No. 2491, Hebbal, Bangalore, India 560024.
Hymenoptera Scelionidae brachyptery taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of Apteroscelio Kieffer, a previously monotypic genus, are here described, illustrated and keyed. Affinities between Apteroscelio and other scelionine genera are discussed. The male of this genus is imaged and described for the first time.

 

 

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