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Issue: Vol. 4459 No. 3: 16 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.10
Page range: 575–582
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Two new species of Anisocyrta Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) from China

Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
2Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC-168, Washington, DC 20013–7012 U.S.A.
Beneficial Insects Institute, Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
Hymenoptera Alysiini taxonomy identification Oriental South Asia key

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Anisocyrta Foerster, 1863, from China are described and illustrated: Anisocyrta xiaoliyaoae Yao, sp. n. and Anisocyrta cvanachterbergi Yao, sp. n. Anisocyrta is reported from China for the first time. A key to the Palearctic species of the genus Anisocyrta is provided based on the keys of van Achterberg (1986) and Belokobylskij (1998). Type specimens of the two new species are deposited in the Beneficial Insects Institute Collection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China (BIIC).

 

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