Journal
ZOOKEYS
Volume -, Issue 302, Pages 79-95Publisher
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.302.4962
Keywords
Biodiversity; caterpillars; parasitoid wasps; tropical rain forest lowlands
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- NSF [DEB 0346712, DEB 0717402, DEB 0515699, DEB 9972024, DEB 0205982]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1020509] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1146119] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The genus Wilkinsonellus Mason is a poorly sampled but widely distributed tropical genus of Microgastrinae (Braconidae), parasitoid wasps that exclusively attack caterpillars (Lepidoptera). Currently, species of Wilkinsonellus have been described only from the Palaeotropics, but the genus was known to occur in the Neotropics. Here we describe the first three species from Central and South America: Wilkinsonellus alexsmithi sp. n., Wilkinsonellus kogui sp. n., and Wilkinsonellus panamaensis sp. n. These species descriptions confirm that Wilkinsonellus is a Pantropical genus. A dichotomous key for the three new Neotropical species is given. The first recorded host for the genus, Microthyris prolongalis (Crambidae), is also reported, for Wilkinsonellus alexsmithi.
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