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Issue: Vol. 4040 No. 4: 12 Nov. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-11-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.3
Page range: 433–444
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 8

The genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 from China, with description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)

Via Belvedere 8/d, I-20881 Bernareggio (MB), Italy. E-mail: rosa@chrysis.net
Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, China.
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510640, China
Hymenoptera Elampini new records new synonym

Abstract

The Chinese species of the genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 are revised and keyed for the first time. Six species are recorded, of which two are new for science: Philoctetes longiflagellis Rosa, Wei & Xu, sp. nov. (Inner Mongolia and Shanxi) and P. simulator Rosa, Notton & Xu, sp. nov. (Tianjin). The new synonym, Philoctetes cupratus (Mócsary, 1914), syn. nov. of Philoctetes mongolicus (du Buysson, 1901), is proposed. Philoctetes mongolicus (du Buysson, 1901) is newly recorded from Pakistan.