A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

First record of Acaenitinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from South America with description of a new species and a key to the world species of Arotes Gravenhorst



Authors: Castillo C, Saaksjarvi IE, Bennett AMR, Broad GR

Publisher: PENSOFT PUBLISHERS

Publication year: 2011

Journal: ZooKeys

Journal name in source: ZOOKEYS

Journal acronym: ZOOKEYS

Number in series: 137

Issue: 137

First page : 77

Last page: 88

Number of pages: 12

ISSN: 1313-2989

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.137.1788


Abstract
A new species of Acaenitinae, Arotes ucumari Castillo & Saaksjarvi, sp. n., is described and illustrated representing the first record of the subfamily from South America. The new species was collected from a premontane tropical rain forest in the Peruvian Andes at 1500 m. A key to the world species of Arotes Gravenhorst, 1829 is provided. The subspecies Arotes albicinctus moiwanus (Matsumura, 1912) is raised to species rank, Arotes moiwanus stat. n.


Keywords:
Amazonia, Arotes, Neotropics, parasitoid wasp, Peru, rainforest



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