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Issue: Vol. 4324 No. 2: 27 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.2.12
Page range: 391–396
Abstract views: 46
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A new genus of the tribe Cotesiini Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from China

State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation / Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Hymenoptera Microgastrinae new genus new species China Guizhou Ningxia Zhejiang Eripnopelta ithyvena

Abstract

A new genus of Microgastrinae (Braconidae) from China is described and illustrated: Eripnopelta Xiong, van Achterberg & Chen, gen. nov. (type species: E. ithyvena Xiong, van Achterberg & Chen, sp. nov. from Zhejiang, Guizhou and Ningxia).

 

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