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Issue: Vol. 3040 No. 1: 23 Sep. 2011
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2011-09-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3040.1.3
Page range: 25–28
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Prorops Waterston 1923 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from Cambodia with a key to world species

Division of Forest Biodiversity, Korea National Arboretum, Soheul-eup, Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 487-821 Korea
Program in Entomology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Daehak-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-921 Korea
Hymenoptera Bethylidae

Abstract

Prorops Waterston 1923 can be easily distinguished from the other genera of Sclerodermini (Bethylidae: Epyrinae) mainly by having frontal process of head well-developed; antenna twelve segmented; median, basal, and anal veins absent (Evans 1978; Terayama 2006).

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