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Issue: Vol. 5399 No. 2: 11 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.2.8
Page range: 190-194
Abstract views: 167
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Discovery of a new species of the genus Cephalotilla Bischoff, 1920 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) from India

Zoological Survey of India; Western Ghat Regional Centre; Kozhikode 673006; Kerala; India; University of Calicut; Thenhipalam; Malappuram; Kerala; India- 673635
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok; Russia
Zoological Survey of India; Western Ghat Regional Centre; Kozhikode 673006; Kerala; India
Hymenoptera velvet ant Mutillinae Ctenotillini Kerala oriental Region

Abstract

A new species, Cephalotilla manikandani Terine, Lelej & Girish Kumar, sp. nov., is described based on female specimens from Southern India. A key to the Oriental species of Cephalotilla Bischoff, 1920 is given.

 

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