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Issue: Vol. 5403 No. 4: 23 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5403.4.3
Page range: 447-458
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One new species and two new records of the spider wasp genus Telostholus Haupt, 1929 in China, with a key to the world species

Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Yunnan Agricultural University; Kunming; Yunnan; 650201; P. R. China
Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Yunnan Agricultural University; Kunming; Yunnan; 650201; P. R. China
Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Yunnan Agricultural University; Kunming; Yunnan; 650201; P. R. China
Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Yunnan Agricultural University; Kunming; Yunnan; 650201; P. R. China
Hymenoptera Pompilidae Telostholus taxonomy new species new record key China

Abstract

The taxonomy of the genus Telostholus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pompilinae) from China is studied and one species is newly described and illustrated: T. venarectus Song & Ma, sp. nov. Additionally, two species, T. lao and T. malayensis are newly reported from China. A key to the world species of Telostholus is provided.

 

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