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Issue: Vol. 3239 No. 1: 20 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3239.1.2
Page range: 35–42
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 13

Description of two new species of Odopoia Walker, 1871 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae) from China, with a key to known species

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China & Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Key Laboratory of Biotic Environment and Ecological Safety in Anhui Province, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China
Hymenoptera taxonomy new species Torymini

Abstract

The genus Odopoia Walker, 1871 is recorded from China for the first time and two new species, O. jianfengica Xiao etJiao sp. nov. and O. wenchangica Xiao et Hu sp. nov., are described and illustrated. The world species are differentiated in a key, the first for the genus.

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