Twenty seven new species of Orthocentrus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Orthocentrinae) with a key to the Neotropical species of the genus - UTU Research Portal

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Twenty seven new species of Orthocentrus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Orthocentrinae) with a key to the Neotropical species of the genus

Authors: Anu Veijalainen, Gavin R. Broad, Ilari E. Sääksjärvi

Publisher: MAGNOLIA PRESS

Publication year: 2014

Journal: Zootaxa

Journal name in source: ZOOTAXA

Journal acronym: ZOOTAXA

Volume: 3768

Issue: 3

First page : 201

Last page: 252

Number of pages: 52

ISSN: 1175-5326

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3768.3.1

Abstract

We describe 27 new species of parasitoid wasps of the genus Orthocentrus (Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from the Neotropical region, where previously only one species of the genus (O. insularis Ashmead) was known, and provide a key to all described Orthocentrus species of the region. Based on previous studies and additional material that we have seen from the region, describing these species is only an initial attempt to document the Neotropical orthocentrine fauna.