A New Species ofAndesipolisWhitfield & Choi from the Eastern Andes of Ecuador with Notes on Biology and Classification (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rhysipolinae) | Zendy

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A New Species ofAndesipolisWhitfield & Choi from the Eastern Andes of Ecuador with Notes on Biology and Classification (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rhysipolinae)

Author(s) -

A. C. Townsend,

Scott Richard Shaw

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of insect science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.551

H-Index - 49

ISSN - 1536-2442

DOI - 10.1673/031.009.3601

Subject(s) - braconidae , biology , subfamily , hymenoptera , lepidoptera genitalia , pyralidae , urticaceae , genus , parasitoid , zoology , taxonomy (biology) , botany , ecology , biochemistry , gene

A new species of braconid wasp, Andesipolis yanayacu , is described from the eastern Andes of Ecuador. Andesipolis yanayacu was reared as a gregarious koinobiont parasitoid of shelter building Pyralidae (Lepidoptera) larvae feeding on Urticaceae ( Phenax rugosus and Boehmeria bullata ). These are the first biological observations for the genus Andesipolis and the first species recorded from Ecuador. This is also the northern-most record for the genus as previously described species are from Chile. Based on morphological attributes and the newly discovered biology, Andesipolis is re-classified from the subfamily Mesostoinae into the subfamily Rhysipolinae.

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