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

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

Publisher: PENSOFT PUBLISHERS

: 2011

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

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.

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