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Issue: Vol. 4263 No. 1: 8 May 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-05-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.2
Page range: 43–71
Abstract views: 47
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New species of Bacuma Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Kenya and West Darfur with a key to species

Integrative Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, BKK 10330, Thailand Center of Excellence in Entomology: Bee Biology, Diversity of Insects and Mites, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, BKK 10330, Thailand
Department of Biology, University of Florida, 411 Carr Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-8525, USA.
Natural History Department, Iziko Museums of South Africa, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Integrative Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, BKK 10330, Thailand Center of Excellence in Entomology: Bee Biology, Diversity of Insects and Mites, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, BKK 10330, Thailand
parasitoid wasp Afrotropical new species taxonomy nectar feeding Hemiptera

Abstract

Three new species of the Afrotropical braconine wasp genus Bacuma are described, and biological observations (nectar feeding) by one of them are noted. The new species are: B. kayserae Quicke & Butcher sp. nov. from Kenya, B. madiensis Quicke & Butcher sp. nov. from Uganda and B. darfurensis Quicke & Butcher sp. nov. from Sudan. A group of four large nominal species with red metasomas and finely sculptured tergites (B. granulatus, B. maculipennis, B. rufa and B. whitei) may represent a single widespread species or a pair of species separated by mesoscutum colour, or four separate but morphologically very similar species. However, given the small number of specimens available for study and the poor condition of some of these, including the types, they are not formally synonymised here. A partial key to the species of Bacuma is presented, which recognizes those species that are clearly distinct, including three new species. Interactive Lucid dichotomous and matrix keys are available on www.waspweb.org.

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