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Issue: Vol. 4438 No. 3: 22 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.7
Page range: 551–560
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Two species and a genus new for Thailand, with description of a new species of Neurolarthra Fischer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) 

Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Northwest University) and Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, 229 North Taibai Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40546-0091, USA.
Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40546-0091, USA.
Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
Hymenoptera Alysiini taxonomy identification Oriental South Asia

Abstract

Neurolarthra Fischer, 1976, is a small braconid genus with two described species. The genus is revised using morphological characters and a phylogenetic analysis of COI sequence data; GenBank accession numbers of seven COI sequences from two species are included. A new species from Thailand is described and illustrated: N. karensharkeyae Yao n. sp. Neurolarthra Fischer and N. procera are reported for the first time from Thailand. A key to species of the genus Neurolarthra is presented.

 

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How to Cite

Yao, J., Achterberg, C.V., Sharkey, M.J., Chapman, E.G. & Chen, J. (2018) Two species and a genus new for Thailand, with description of a new species of Neurolarthra Fischer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) . Zootaxa, 4438 (3), 551–560. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.7