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Issue: Vol. 4629 No. 3: 8 Jul. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.3.10
Page range: 428–440
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The genus Passaloecus Shuckard (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) from China with four new species and two new records

Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China
Hymenoptera Pemphredoninae Palearctic region new taxonomy

Abstract

Four new species of genus Passaloecus Shuckard, (Crabronidae: Pemphredoninae: Pemphredonini) from China are described, namely P. bisulcatus Bashir & Ma, sp. nov., P. profundesulcatus Bashir & Ma, sp. nov., P. tuberangustus Bashir & Ma, sp. nov., and P. tuberculiformis Bashir & Ma, sp. nov. In addition, eight Palearctic species are reported, of which P. turanicus Gussakovskij and P. turionum Dahlbom are first records for China. A key to the species of Passaloecus from China is provided.

 

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