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Issue: Vol. 4758 No. 2: 30 Mar. 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-03-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.13
Page range: 397–400
Abstract views: 80
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A new species of Eremotylus Forster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Peru, with a key to the Neotropical species

Sección Académica de Entomología y Protección Vegetal, Escuela de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín (UNSA). Av. Alcides Carrión s/n, Pabellón de Biología, Arequipa, Perú. Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural, UNSA.
Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Av. Arenales 1256 Jesús María, Lima 14, Perú. Bosque Llaqta, Av. Confraternidad Internacional Este N° 364, Huaraz, Perú.
Hymenoptera Ichneumonoidea taxonomy parasitoids wasps

Abstract

The genus Eremotylus Forster currently comprises 16 described species, two of them occurring in the Neotropical region. The genus is recorded for the first time in Peru and Eremotylus pukayana sp. nov. is described. A key for the Neotropical species is also presented.

 

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