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Issue: Vol. 5590 No. 3: 24 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5590.3.4
Page range: 365-385
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 2

Endoparasitoid wasps of the genus Cubus (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Metopiinae) reared from caterpillars of Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund; Sector Santa Rosa; Area de Conservación Guanacaste; Costa Rica.
PO Box 2195-1000; San José; Costa Rica.
Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical; Escuela de Biologia; Universidad de Costa Rica; San Pedro; 11501– 2060; San José; Costa Rica.
Department of Biology; University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; PA 19104; USA.
Department of Biology; University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; PA 19104; USA.
Hymenoptera DNA barcoding caterpillars Crambidae parasitoid host records wasp ecology

Abstract

As a result of COI barcoding over 200 reared specimens of what appeared to be Cubus validus from northwestern Costa Rica, and matching them with their host caterpillars and morphological traits, we describe eleven new sympatric species. All are endoparasitoids of leaf-rolling Crambidae (Lepidoptera). The new species, authored by Zúñiga, Valerio & Hanson, are: Cubus alanflemingi, C. christhompsoni, C. curtsabrowskyi, C. duvalierbricenoi, C. gracewoodae, C. jeffcummingi, C. jimoharai, C. johnstiremani, C. manuelzumbadoi, C. montywoodi, and C. normwoodleyi. We also provide an illustrated key, a table of key morphological characters of each species, and a table of host records.

 

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