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Issue: Vol. 2916 No. 1: 14 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2916.1.3
Page range: 41–50
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the genus Apsilops Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) from Japan; parasitoid of an aquatic crambid moth

Systematic Entomology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan
Toyonaka Municipal Fourteenth Junior High School, Toyonaka, 560-0001, Japan
Laboratory of Animal Ecology, School of Human Sciences, Kobe College, Nishinomiya, 662-8505, Japan
Hymenoptera Aquatic Hymenoptera aquatic moth parasitoid taxonomy yellow water lily

Abstract

Apsilops japonicus n. sp. is described from Japan. This species parasitizes an aquatic crambid moth, Neoschoenobia testacealis Hampson, a petiole borer of the yellow water lily, Nuphar subintegerrimum (Casp.) Makino sensu lato. A key to the world species of Apsilops is provided.

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