<strong>Description of a new species of <em>Aclastus</em> Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) from the Peruvian Andes, with dimorphic females</strong>

SANTIAGO BORDERA; MARINA MAZON

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.3

Issue: Vol. 3955 No. 3: 5 May 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-05-05

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.3

Page range: 340–348

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**Description of a new species of Aclastus Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) from the Peruvian Andes, with dimorphic females**

SANTIAGO BORDERA⁺⁻
MARINA MAZON⁺⁻

Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales/Instituto de Investigación de Biodiversidad CIBIO (Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad), Universidad de Alicante Alicante (Spain).

Universidad Nacional Experimental Sur del Lago “Jesús María Semprum” UNESUR, Santa Bárbara del Zulia (Venezuela). Instituto Jardín Botánico de Mérida, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida (Venezuela) Laboratorio de Ecología de Insectos, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida (Venezuela)

Hymenoptera Aclastus parasitoid dimorphic female brachypterous Neotropical high altitude

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to describe and illustrate a new species of Aclastus with dimorphic females and to provide the diagnostic characters to distinguish it from Holarctic species of the genus. In addition, we provide data on the habitat and phenology of the species.