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New records of interaction between Pseudoxenos (Strepsiptera) and the solitary wasp Pachodynerus grandis in Brazil (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) with an updated worldwide checklist of eumenine host species of Pseudoxenos

Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
Hymenoptera Endoparasitoid hosts stylopisation potter wasps

Abstract

Interactions between Strepsiptera (Pseudoxenos Saunders, 1872) and solitary wasps (Eumeninae) are recorded for the first time in Brazil for Pachodynerus grandis Willink & Roig-Alsina, 1998. An updated worldwide checklist of the host species of Eumeninae for Pseudoxenos is provided.

 

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