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Issue: Vol. 2162 No. 1: 20 Jul. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-07-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2162.1.2
Page range: 24–36
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

Revisiting the Brazilian fauna of masarine wasps: new records, an illustrated key to species and a description of the male of Trimeria rubra Hermes & Melo (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae)

Laboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Cx. Postal 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brasil
Laboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Cx. Postal 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brasil
Hymenoptera Brazil Ceramiopsis New records Neotropical Paramasaris pollen wasps Trimeria

Abstract

An overview of the Brazilian fauna of pollen wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae) is made: an illustrated key for all species recorded or potentially occurring in the country is provided; the male of Trimeria rubra Hermes & Melo is described; two species (Ceramiopsis paraguayensis Bertoni and T. bequaerti Willink) are newly recorded for Brazil; three species (Paramasaris richardsi (Giordani Soika), T. rubra and T. robusta Hermes & Melo) are newly recorded for Brazilian states and flower records are given for T. rubra for the first time.

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