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Issue: Vol. 3613 No. 2: 8 Feb. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-02-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.7
Page range: 190–194
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 1

The discovery of the rare genus Epimicta Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in China, with a description of a new species

Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture?Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, 350002, China
Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture?Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, 350002, China
National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Hymenoptera Alysiinae Dacnusini Palearctic Oriental parasitoids

Abstract

Epimicta sulciscutum sp. nov. fromHeilongjiang (North China) is described and illustrated. A key to species of the genus is provided.

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