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Issue: Vol. 3941 No. 3: 1 Apr. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-04-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.3.8
Page range: 421–428
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the ant-hunter genus Tracheliodes Morawitz (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Crabronini) from Brazil

Laboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, Curitiba, Brazil, 81530-980
Laboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, Curitiba, Brazil, 81530-980
crabronine wasps Neotropical taxonomy Apoidea

Abstract

Tracheliodes leclercqi sp. n., a new species of the ant-hunter genus Tracheliodes Morawitz, is described from southeastern Brazil. It closely resembles T. cutucu Cooper, 1988 and the main differences between the two species are presented. Photographs of type specimens of T. leclercqi sp. n., as well as of a female and a male paratypes of T. cutucu, are provided.