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Issue: Vol. 4664 No. 4: 5 Sept. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.4.11
Page range: 587–593
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 5

First South American record of the rare ichneumonoid subfamily Masoninae van Achterberg (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Ichneumonidae) with description of a new species from Brazil

Integrative Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Thailand Center of Excellence in Entomology: Bee Biology, Diversity of Insects and Mites, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Thailand
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900, Viçosa, MG, Brasil
Integrative Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Thailand Center of Excellence in Entomology: Bee Biology, Diversity of Insects and Mites, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Thailand
Hymenoptera apterous plesiomorphic neotropics Atlantic forest Winkler sample

Abstract

Masona popeye Quicke & Chaul sp. n. is described from Brazil, and differentiated from other species of the genus. Described extant species of Masona are known from Australia and south eastern U.S.A. (Georgia and Florida including the Key Islands). Two undescribed species are known from Tanzania and Cambodia. The new species is therefore the first representative of the subfamily Masoninae van Achterberg from South America, demonstrating the completely cosmopolitan distribution of this very poorly known group. The new species most closely resembles a fossil species, M. pyriceps van Achterberg, 2001, from Dominican amber with which it shares the plesiomorphic presence of a scutellum.

 

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