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Issue: Vol. 2274 No. 1: 28 Oct. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-10-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2274.1.2
Page range: 45–50
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 10

A new Arthula Cameron (Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae) parasitoid of Ropalidia plebeiana Richards (Vespidae) and host of Amoturoides breviscapus Girault (Torymidae) (Hymenoptera)

Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Center for Biological Researches, Indonesian Institute of Science, Bogor, Indonesia
Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310-8512 Japan
Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310-8512 Japan
Hymenoptera Cryptinae Arthula Ropalidia plebeiana Torymidae Vespidae

Abstract

Arthula plebeja Ubaidillah and Kojima, sp. nov., a parasitoid of the Australian paper wasp Ropalidia plebeiana Richards, and host of the torymid hyperparasitoid Amoturoides breviscapus Girault, is described and illustrated. Both A. plebeja and A. breviscapus are estimated to have a bivoltine life cycle, the first overwintering in the pupal stage, and the second in the prepupal and/or pupal stage.

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