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Issue: Vol. 5099 No. 3: 14 Feb. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-02-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.3.7
Page range: 391-400
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Descriptions of two new species of Lestica Billberg (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) from China, with a key to the Chinese Lestica species

Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China. Dan Yue.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China. Dan Yue
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, P. R. China.
Hymenoptera Crabroninae taxonomy key new species Oriental region

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Lestica Billberg (Crabronidae: Crabroninae: Crabronini) from China are described and illustrated, namely L. robustispinosa Yue & Ma from Xinjiang, and L. breviantennata Yue & Li from Jiangxi, Hunan and Yunnan Provinces. A key to the species of Lestica from China is provided.

 

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