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Cryptic biodiversity of tropical hesperiid caterpillar-attacking parasitoid wasps: three new species of Creagrura Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae) from Costa Rica and Peru
Authors: Sääksjärvi Ilari E, Kaunisto Kari M, Sharkey Michael, Stedenfeld Shelby, Smith M Alex, Hallwachs Winnie, Janzen Daniel
Publisher: PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Biodiversity data journal
Journal name in source: BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
Journal acronym: BIODIVERS DATA J
Article number: e91486
Volume: 10
Number of pages: 18
ISSN: 1314-2836
eISSN: 1314-2828
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e91486(external)
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We describe three new species of the previously monotypic genus Creagrura Townes from Central and South America: C. alejandromasisi sp. n. and C. rogerblancoi sp. n. from Costa Rica and C. allpahuaya sp. n. from Peru, all of which emphasise the unknown parasitoid insect diversity yet to be revealed in the tropics. New information Host relationships of the two Costa Rican species are described in detail. In addition, it is inferred that the Creagrura wasps find and oviposit in the caterpillar when it is exposed at night, rather than when it is concealed during daylight hours.
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