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Issue: Vol. 4370 No. 3: 11 Jan. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-01-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.3.10
Page range: 295–300
Abstract views: 43
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Two new species of Xanthomicrogaster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Argentina, with a key to species of the genus

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina (CONICET) Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina.
Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
Hymenoptera Braconidae

Abstract

The genus Xanthomicrogaster is reported for the first time from Argentina. Two new species, X. sayjuhu Martínez sp. nov. from NE Argentina, and X. otamendi Martínez sp. nov. from the delta of the Parana River are described and illustrated. These include the first reports of the genus from temperate latitudes in South America. A key to species of Xanthomicrogaster is provided.

 

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