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Issue: Vol. 2910 No. 1: 8 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2910.1.3
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 4

A new record of Zatypota albicoxa (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Indonesia, with description of a new species of its host spider (Araneae: Theridiidae)

Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi 3-5-7, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8566, Japan
Yamagata Prefectural Museum, Kajo-machi 1-8, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-0826, Japan
Laboratory of Basic Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University, Jl. Flora 1, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
Osaka Museum of Natural History, Nagai Park 1-23, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 546-0034, Japan
Araneae irregular three-dimensional web host-shift Java koinobiont parasitism Parasteatoda Polysphincta-group

Abstract

Zatypota albicoxa (Walker) is newly recorded from Mt. Merapi, Java Is., Indonesia. This is the first record of Z. albicoxa from this part of the Oriental region and from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first record of the genus Zatypota from Southeast Asia. The Indonesian population of Z. albicoxa attacks a theridiid spider of the genus Parasteatoda, as do populations of Z. albicoxa in other regions. The spider is a new species, and is described under the name of Parasteatoda merapiensis.

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