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Issue: Vol. 3478 No. 1: 11 Sep. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-09-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3478.1.17
Page range: 143–163
Abstract views: 25
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New species of cynipid inquilines of the genus Ufo Melika & Pujade-Villar, 2005 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini)

Budapest Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratory, National Food Chain Safety Office, Directorate of Plant Protection, Soil Conservation and Agri-environment, Budaörsi str. 141–145, Budapest 1118, Hungary
Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227 Taiwan
Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 40227 Taiwan
Biological Resesarch Center of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics, Temesvári krt 62, Szeged, 6726 and University of Szeged, Department of Ecology, Közép fasor 52 Szeged, Hungary
Biological Resesarch Center of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics, Temesvári krt 62, Szeged, 6726 and University of Szeged, Department of Ecology, Közép fasor 52 Szeged, Hungary
Biological Resesarch Center of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics, Temesvári krt 62, Szeged, 6726 and University of Szeged, Department of Ecology, Közép fasor 52 Szeged, Hungary
Hymenoptera Cynipidae inquiline Synergini Ufo Saphonecrus taxonomy morphology

Abstract

Two new species of cynipid inquilines, Ufo nipponicus from Japan and U. cerroneuroteri from Taiwan are described.Descriptions, diagnoses, biology, and host associations for the new species and a key to Ufo species are given. Two Ufospecies, U. shirakashii (Shinji) and U. shirokashicola (Shinji) are transferred to Saphonecrus. All taxa are supported by morphological and molecular data.

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