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Issue: Vol. 4138 No. 1: 14 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.11
Page range: 195–200
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 1

A remarkable new species of Sicophion Gauld, 1979 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Peru, with a key to the species

Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive – Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural, UNMSM. Av. Arenales 1256 Jesús María, Lima 14, Perú.
Hymenoptera Ichneumonoidea Ophioninae taxonomy wasps parasitoids

Abstract

The small Neotropical genus Sicophion currently comprises two described species. The genus is recorded for the first time in Peru and S. yana sp. n. is described. A key to species is also presented.

 

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