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Issue: Vol. 4869 No. 2: 2 Nov. 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-11-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.2.9
Page range: 290–294
Abstract views: 47
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A new species of Foenatopus Smith (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae) from Andaman Islands, India

Insect Ecology and Ethology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, 673635, India.
Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Eranhipalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, 673006, India.
Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Haddo, Port Blair, 744102, India.
Hymenoptera Stephanidae

Abstract

The family Stephanidae Leach, 1815, is cosmopolitan, yet a group of infrequently encountered parasitoids with 364 described extant species in 13 genera (Aguiar et al. 2010; Binoy et al. 2020) and nine species in four extinct genera (Aguiar 2004; Aguiar et al. 2013; Engel & Huang 2017) worldwide. The Indian Stephanidae was recently revised (Binoy et al. 2020), recognising a total of 30 species in four extant genera viz., Foenatopus Smith, Megischus Brullé, Parastephanellus Enderlein and Stephanus Jurine.

 

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