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New species of Eiphosoma Cresson 1865 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae) from Brazil

2009; Instituto Internacional de Ecologia (Brazil); Volume: 69; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1519-69842009000500028

ISSN

1678-4375

Autores

Helena Carolina Onody, IF. Melo, Angélica Maria Penteado‐Dias, MM. Dias-Filho,

Tópico(s)

Forest Insect Ecology and Management

Resumo

species, 17 of which occur in Brazil (Costa Lima, 1953;Gauld, 2000;Yu et al., 2005;Triana and Ravelo, 2007).The tropical American species of Eiphosoma Cresson 1865 belong to nine distinct species group characterized by Gauld (2000).It is an easily distinctive and very common genus that occurs in open and degraded habitats, being an important natural enemy of agricultural lepidopterous pests (Triana and Ravelo, 2007).Amongst the material collected from organic agroecosystems in southeast Brazil, five Eiphosoma Cresson 1865 specimens were identified as a new species.Other species of Ichneumonidae has been studied with material collected in several Brazilian ecosystems (Onody and Penteado-Dias, 2006; Onody et al., 2009; Loffredo and Penteado-Dias, 2008 a,b).The terminology in this study follows Gauld (2000) and all specimens are depos-

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