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Issue: Vol. 5575 No. 1: 22 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.1.7
Page range: 159-166
Abstract views: 91
PDF downloaded: 3

First record of the subgenus Megachelonus Baker, 1926 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae, genus Chelonus Panzer, 1806) for the Afrotropical region (southwestern region of Saudi Arabia), with the description of a new species

Plant Protection Department; College of Food and Agriculture Sciences; King Saud University; P.O. BOX 2460; Riyadh 11451; Saudi Arabia
Plant Protection Department; College of Food and Agriculture Sciences; King Saud University; P.O. BOX 2460; Riyadh 11451; Saudi Arabia
Entomology Department; Faculty of Science; Cairo University; Giza; Egypt
Hymenoptera Jazan Coffea arabica new record new species

Abstract

The subgenus Megachelonus Baker, 1926 of the cosmopolitan genus Chelonus Panzer, 1806 is recorded for the first time in the Afrotropical region, in a coffee orchard in Jazan (southwestern Saudi Arabia). A new species, Chelonus (Megachelonus) arabicus Soliman & Gadallah, is described and illustrated.

 

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