A bizarre new species of Triclistus Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Metopiinae) from Amazonia

Ilari Eerikki Sääksjärvi; Santiago Bordera

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3955.4.10

A bizarre new species of Triclistus Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Metopiinae) from Amazonia

Zootaxa. 2015 May 6;3955(4):595-600. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.4.10.

Authors

Ilari Eerikki Sääksjärvi¹, Santiago Bordera²

Affiliations

¹ Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland.; Email: ileesa@utu.fi.
² Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales / Instituto de Investigación CIBIO (Centro Iberoamericano de Biodiversidad). Universidad de Alicante. Apdo. Corr. 99, 03080. Alicante, Spain.; Email: s.bordera@ua.es.

PMID: 25947875
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.4.10

Abstract

A new bizarre new species of Metopiinae, Triclistus amazopeikkus sp. nov., is described and illustrated. The new species was collected from the lowland Peruvian Amazonia.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animal Structures / anatomy & histology
Animal Structures / growth & development
Animals
Body Size
Female
Organ Size
Wasps / anatomy & histology
Wasps / classification*
Wasps / growth & development