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Issue: Vol. 4369 No. 2: 4 Jan. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4369.2.4
Page range: 221–236
Abstract views: 92
PDF downloaded: 1

Nocturnal Aphanistes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Anomaloninae) in the Neotropical region, with the description of five new species

Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive—Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural, UNMSM. Av. Arenales 1256 Jesús María, Lima 14, Perú
Hymenoptera Ichneumonoidea taxonomy wasps parasitoids

Abstract

The crepuscularis species group of the ichneumonid genus Aphanistes Förster currently comprises three species—Aphanistes crepuscularis Dasch, A. guatemalenus (Cameron), and A. arcei Gauld & Bradshaw. Five new species are described: A. augustoi sp. n., A. cachil sp. n., A. paolae sp. n., A. ruthae sp. n., and A. silviae sp. n. A key for the species group is also presented.

 

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