Five
species are also named after institutions holding some of the largest wasp
collections
Date:
June 25, 2018
Source:
Pensoft Publishers
Summary:
A
total of 17 new genera and 29 new species of parasitoid wasps were identified
following a study into the material deposited at major natural history
collections around the globe in an attempt to further uncover the megadiverse
fauna of the group of microgastrine wasps.
The
novel taxa known to inhabit the tropics, including the Afrotropical,
Australasian, Neotropical and the Oriental region, are published by Dr Jose
Fernandez-Triana and Caroline Boudreault of the Canadian National Collection of
insects in Ottawa in a monograph in the open access Journal of Hymenoptera
Research.
Curiously,
amongst the newly described wasps, there are several newly described genera and
species, which received particularly amusing names.
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