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Issue: Vol. 5514 No. 6: 2 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.6.3
Page range: 550-558
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Sixty-one years later: a second species of Scolebythus Evans (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae) from southern Madagascar

Univ Rennes; CNRS; Géosciences Rennes; UMR 6118; 35000 Rennes; France.; Institut de Systématique; Évolution; Biodiversité (ISYEB); Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; Sorbonne Université; EPHE; Université des Antilles; CP50; 57 rue Cuvier; F-75005 Paris; France.; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing 210008; China.
Hymenoptera Insecta Chrysidoidea parasitic wasp taxonomy Malagasy sub-region

Abstract

Despite recent advances in the systematics and taxonomy of the relictual family Scolebythidae, the type genus Scolebythus Evans, 1963 remained monospecific for more than sixty years. Here, I describe and illustrate Scolebythus bekilyensis sp. nov. from a female specimen collected in southern Madagascar. This discovery emphasizes on the endemism of this genus, which is unique within the Scolebythidae for being restricted to one biogeographic realm, and suggests that potential new species are yet to be discovered in this megadiverse region.

 

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