One new species and one new record species of Acerophagus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from China with a key to Chinese species

Published Date

Original Paper

First Online: 

30 November 2016

DOI: 10.1007/s11676-016-0342-y

Cite this article as: 

Zu, G. & Li, C. J. For. Res. (2016). doi:10.1007/s11676-016-0342-y

Author 

• Guohao Zu
• Chengde LiEmail author

Abstract 

Two species of Acerophagus from Yunnan Province, China, are reported. One species, A. ovaliclavus sp. nov., is described as new to science, and one species, A. solidus Hayat is reported as new to China. A key to all described species from China based on females is given. All the type materials are deposited in the insect collections of Northeast Forestry University, China.

Keywords

AcerophagusChalcidoideaEncyrtidaeNew speciesTaxonomy

Project founding: This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31470652) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2572015AA31).

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