Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2020-11-19
Page range: 337–348
Abstract views: 112
PDF downloaded: 40

A new species of Boethella Bennett, 2003 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae) from Brazil, redescription of the genus and a key to world species

Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil. Deceased.
Universidade Estadual do Piauí, Av. Joaquina Nogueira de Oliveira, s/n, Aeroporto, CEP 64.980-00,0Corrente, PI, Brazil.
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1A 0C6.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Neotropical region parasitoid taxonomy wasp Hymenoptera

Abstract

Boethella jatai sp. nov. is described from a savanna area in the southeast of Brazil. The genus is redescribed to include the new species and an identification key for world species is provided.

References

  1. Bennett, A.M.R. (2003) A new genus and five new species of Neotropical Tryphoninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 12, 209–219.

    Bennett, A.M.R. (2015) Revision of the world genera of Tryphoninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 86, 1–387.

    Fitton, M.G. & Ficken, L. (1990) British ichneumon-flies of the tribe Oedemopsini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). The Entomologist, 109, 200–214.

    Gauld, I.D. (1991) The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 1. Introduction, keys to subfamilies, and keys to the species of the lower Pimpliform subfamilies Rhyssinae, Poemeniinae, Acaenitinae and Cylloceriinae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 47, 1–589.

    Gauld, I.D., Wahl, D.B., Bradshaw, K., Hanson, P. & Ward, S. (1997) The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 2. Introduction and keys to species of the smaller subfamilies, Anomaloninae, Ctenopelmatinae, Diplazontinae, Lycorininae, Phrudinae, Tryphoninae (excluding Netelia) and Xoridinae, with an appendix on the Rhyssinae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 57, 1–485.

    Gupta, V.K. (1984) A revision of the world species of Hercus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). International Journal of Entomology, 26, 222–234.

    Kasparyan, D.R. (1973) Fauna of the USSR Hymenoptera. Vol. III. No. 1. Ichneumonoidae (subfamily Tryphoninae) Tribe Tryphonini. Nauka Publihers, Leningra. Amerind Publishing Co, Ltd. New Delhi, 414 pp. [in Russian Translated into English in 1981]

    Kasparyan, D.R. (2019) New Palaearctic taxa of ichneumonids (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tryphoninae): Orthodolius gen. nov., Praectenochira subgen. nov. and Aderaeon Townes, 1949, status resurr. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, St. Petersburg, 90, 136–145.

    Rodrigues-Berrio, A., Bordera, S. & Sääksjärvi, I.E. (2009) Checklist of Peruvian Ichneumonidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Zootaxa, 2303, 1–44.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2303.1.1

    Yu, D.S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. (2016) World Ichneumonoidea 2015. Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. In: Taxapad Interactive Catalogue Database. Nepean, Ottawa. [on flash-drive]