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SUBMITTER: Whitfield JB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3406448 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Whitfield James B JB Fernández-Triana José L JL Janzen Daniel H DH Hallwachs Winnie W Smith M Alex MA Cardinal Sophie S
ZooKeys 20120717 208
A new genus of microgastrine parasitoid wasps, Mariapanteles Whitfield & Fernández-Triana, gen. n., is described from rain forests of the Neotropics. The new genus is related to the common and speciose genus Pseudapanteles, but can be distinguished from the latter by having a complete transverse carina on the propodeum which forks around the spiracles. A molecular analysis based on data from COI from specimens of the proposed new genus plus possibly related genera confirms its generic distinctne ...[more]