Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Almost 200 new species of parasitoid wasps named after local parataxonomists in Costa Rica

Date:
February 24, 2014

Source:
Pensoft Publishers

Summary:
An astonishing number of 186 new species of parasitoid wasps attacking caterpillars in the Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica, are described through an innovative approach integrating morphological, molecular and biological data, computer-generated descriptions, and high-quality illustrations. Most of the new species are named after local parataxonomists, who in many cases collected the caterpillars from which the new species of wasps emerged.


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