New Species of the Genus Clistopyga (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) from the Afrotropical Region

O. Varga

doi:10.15407/zoo2021.05.421

O. Varga Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6285-7830

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.05.421

Keywords: Ephialtini, Kenya, parasitoids, taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of the genus Clistopyga Gravenhorst, 1829 from the Southeast of Kenya is described and illustrated. Clistopyga kenyensis sp. n. is the second recorded species of the genus from the country, together with C. incitator (Fabricius, 1793), and third known species from the Afrotropical region

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