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Partial revision of the Indo-Australian braconine wasp genus Gammabracon Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with descriptions of new species from Indonesia (Mollucas), Malaysia,Philippines and Thailand |
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| Authors: | Donald L. J. Quicke James E. Hogan Andrew M. R. Bennett Gavin R. Broad |
| Affiliation: | 1. Center of Excellence in Entomology: Bee biology and Diversity of Insects and Mites, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand;2. Hope Entomological Collections, Life Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK;3. Canadian National Collection of Insects (CNC), Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;4. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK |
| Abstract: | Ten distinctive new species of the taxonomically difficult braconine wasp genus Gammabracon Quicke, 1984 are described: G. apicoluteus sp. nov. from Malaysia (Negri); G. curticornis sp. nov. from Malaysia (Negri); G. philippinensis sp. nov. from the Philippines; G. siamensis sp. nov. from Thailand; G. striatus sp. nov. from West Malaysia; G. strandorum sp. nov. from Indonesia (Java), G. subvena sp. nov. from Malaysia (Negri and Sabah); G. townesorum sp. nov. from the Philippines; G. variipennis sp. nov. from Thailand; and G. wegeneri sp. nov. from Indonesia. Myosoma forticarinata Cameron, 1902 is transferred to Gammabracon, hence Gammabracon forticarinata comb. nov. A lectotype is designated for Gammabracon erythroura (Cameron). The status of Cratobracon strandiellus (Cameron) is discussed and a new combination proposed, Shelfordia strandiellus Cameron, 1910 comb. nov. (=Bracon strandiellus Cameron). Paucity of discrete morphological variation makes separation of most of the species with orange-red mesosoma, black metasoma and conspicuous back setae currently unrealistic and it may be that there is a single widespread and morphologically variable species. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:56B8884E-99C8-4B53-9747-D011F552312D |
| Keywords: | Gammabracon new taxa venation sculpture |