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Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-06
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New species of the genus Xorides Latréille, 1809 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Xoridinae) from Kenya

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, B. Khmelnytskogo Str. 15, Kyiv 01030, Ukraine
Xoridinae parasitoid new species Kenya

Abstract

Xorides tertiusdecimus sp. nov., a thirteenth known Afrotropical species of the genus Xorides Latréille, 1809, is described from Kenya. The newly described species is similar to Xorides maculiceps (Cameron, 1906), but differs in having the carinate propodeum and rugulo-punctate first metasomal tergite.

 

Key words: Xoridinae, parasitoid, new species, Kenya

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