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Issue: Vol. 1934 No. 1: 17 Nov. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-11-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1934.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 2

Redescription of Crassomicrodus fulvescens (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae), with new distributional data and revised taxonomic status

Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Km. 9.5 carretera Morelia-Zinapecuaro, Tarímbaro, Michoacán, 58880, México
Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, S-225 Ag. Science Center North, Lexington, Kentucky 40546-0091, USA
Instituto de Fitosanidad, Colegio de Postgraduados, Km. 36.5 Carretera Mex-Texcoco, Montecillo Edo. de México, 56230, México
Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad 1001, Col. Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos, C.P. 62210, México
CIIDIR-IPN-Unidad Oaxaca, Área de Control biológico, Hornos #1003, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, C.P. 71230, México
Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Km. 9.5 carretera Morelia-Zinapecuaro, Tarímbaro, Michoacán, 58880, México
Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Km. 9.5 carretera Morelia-Zinapecuaro, Tarímbaro, Michoacán, 58880, México
Hymenoptera Nearctic new synonym New World parasitoid taxonomy

Abstract

A detailed description of the adult of Crassomicrodus fulvescens (Cresson) is provided along with illustrations. New distributional data in the USA and Mexico are presented, and the first records from Canada are reported. Microdus medius Cresson is found to be a junior subjective synonym of M. fulvescens. Autographa californica (Speyer) is reported as a possible host for C. fulvescens based exclusively on label data.

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