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Issue: Vol. 4362 No. 1: 4 Dec. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-12-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.7
Page range: 131–134
Abstract views: 81
PDF downloaded: 2

A new genus of the tribe Praini Mackauer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from China

State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests,, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Northwest University) and Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests,, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Hymenoptera Braconidae Aphidiinae

Abstract

A new genus of the tribe Praini Mackauer, 1961 (Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from China is described in this paper, Astigmapraon Tian et Chen, gen. nov. (Type species: A. hei Tian et Chen, sp. nov. from Shaanxi and Sichuan). An identification key to the genera of Praini is added.

 

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