A new species of Rhadinobracon Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Spain, with probable host record
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Journal article
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Date published
October 25, 2024
Abstract
Rhadinobracon hispanicus sp. n. is described and illustrated from specimens reared from dead and dying wood of Lamarck collected in Huelva province, S. W. Spain. The only xylophagous insects also reared were the buprestid beetle (Piller & Mitterpacker) (Buprestidae), which is considered to be almost certainly the host. is largely Afrotropical, Middle Eastern and Indian in distribution and the new species represents a large expansion of the known range of the genus. The new species exhibits considerable sexual dimorphism in respect of the hind leg, and an earlier male specimen (now lost) from a different locality in Spain clearly, from photographs and an outline description, belongs to the same species.
Journal title
Entomologist's Monthly Magazine
Volume
160
Issue
4
Publisher
Pemberley Books (Publishing)
ISSN
0013-8908
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