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Issue: Vol. 4137 No. 4: 13 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.8
Page range: 561–568
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 50

The European species of Foersterella Dalla Torre (Hymenoptera: Tetracampidae), including the description of two new species

Biological Museum (Entomology), Lund University, Sölvegatan 37, SE-22362 Lund, SWEDEN & Scientific Associate, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UNITED KINGDOM.
Hymenoptera angusticornis erdoesi fuscicornis reptans identification key

Abstract

The European species of Foersterella Dalla Torre 1897 (Hymenoptera: Tetracampidae) are treated, including two previously described species, F. erdoesi Bouček and F. reptans (Nees), and two new species, F. angusticornis sp. nov. and F. fuscicornis sp. nov. Morphological concepts of the species are based mainly on characters in the male antenna, which females lack, and with the exception of F. erdoesi females are currently not possible to identify to species. A key for the identification of species is included, as well as illustrations to facilitate the identification.

 

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