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Issue: Vol. 5594 No. 1: 27 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5594.1.8
Page range: 167-176
Abstract views: 127
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Three new species of Lytopylus Foerster, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) from Brazil

Universidade Federal do Pará/Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Campus Básico; Rua Augusto Corrêa; 01; CEP 66075-110; Guamá. Belém; Pará; Brazil
CIRAD; CBGP; F-34398 Montpellier; France; CBGP; CIRAD; INRAE; Institut Agro; IRD; Univ Montpellier; Montpellier; France; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais da Universidade Federal de São Carlos; Rod. Washington Luiz km 235; 13565-905; São Carlos; SP; Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia—INPA; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia; Campus II; Caixa postal 478; CEP 69011-97; Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil
Hymenoptera amazon rainforest Agathidini cerrado parasitoids taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Lytopylus Foerster, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae) has 40 described species with a primarily Neotropical distribution. The present work presents three new species of the genus: Lytopylus melanoflavus Silva, Shimbori & Fernandes sp. nov. and Lytopylus tigrinus Silva, Shimbori & Fernandes sp. nov. from the Amazon rainforest (State of Amazonas), and Lytopylus minimus Silva, Shimbori & Fernandes sp. nov. from the Cerrado (State of Mato Grosso). Additionally, we provide an identification key for all Brazilian species of Lytopylus.

 

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