A new species of genus Leluthia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing Agrilus sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from China with a key to the East Palaearctic species

TAO LI; CORNELIS VAN ACHTERBERG; ZHI-CHUN XU

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4048.4.10

Issue: Vol. 4048 No. 4: 27 Nov. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-11-27

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.4.10

Page range: 594–600

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**A new species of genus Leluthia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)** parasitizing Agrilus sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from China with a key to the East Palaearctic species

TAO LI⁺⁻
CORNELIS VAN ACHTERBERG⁺⁻
ZHI-CHUN XU⁺⁻

General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, Shenyang 110034, P. R. China

Department of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, P. R. China / Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Beijing Key Laboratory for Forest Pest Control, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, P. R. China

Hymenoptera Doryctinae Hecabolini Leluthia Argilus new species

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Abstract

A new species of genus Leluthia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), L. chinensis Li & van Achterberg, sp. nov. is described and illustrated. It was reared from Agrilus sp. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), a twig-boring pest of Caragana korshinskii Kom. (Leguminosae) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, NW China. A key to the East Palaearctic species of the genus Leluthia is provided.