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Issue: Vol. 4422 No. 2: 23 May 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-05-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.2.9
Page range: 291–295
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Schizopyga alinae, a genus of pimpline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) new to the Afrotropical region

Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo 15, Kyiv 01030, Ukraine.
College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen University, 135 Xingangxi St. Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China.
Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae Pimplinae

Abstract

Schizopyga Gravenhorst, 1829 is a small genus belonging to the Polysphincta genus-group of the subfamily Pimplinae, with 12 known species worldwide (Yu et al., 2012; Matsumoto, 2016), two of them from the Afrotropical region (Gauld & Dubois, 2006).

        Schizopyga species are known as parasitoids of spiders creating non-aerial webs (Clubionidae, Gnaphosidae, and Agelenidae) (Matsumoto, 2016).

 

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    Matsumoto, R. (2016) Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Polysphincta group of genera (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae). Systematic Entomology, 41 (4), 854–864.
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