First record of Acaenitinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from South America with description of a new species and a key to the world species of Arotes Gravenhorst

By

Castillo, Carol
Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.
Bennett, Andrew M. R.
Broad, Gavin R.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

137

Pages

77-88

Subjects

Amazonia , Arotes , Neotropics , parasitoid wasp , Peru , rainforest

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.137.1788

 

Abstract

A new species of Acaenitinae, Arotes ucumari Castillo & Sääksjärvi sp. n., is described and illustrated representing the first record of the subfamily from South America. The new species was collected from a premontane tropical rain forest in the Peruvian Andes at 1500 m. A key to the world species of Arotes Gravenhorst, 1829 is provided. The subspecies Arotes albicinctus moiwanus (Matsumura, 1912) is raised to species rank, Arotes moiwanus stat. n.