A New Species of the Afrotropical Braconine (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) Parasitoid Wasp Genus Doggerella with Remarkable Ovipositor Sheaths

Publication Type

Journal Article

Journal Name

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Publication Date

10-1-2020

Abstract

Doggerella knobkerrie Quicke, new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae), from Kenya is described and illustrated photographically. The description is justified because of the remarkably developed, club-like, ovipositor sheaths, not known elsewhere in the Ichneumonoidea.

Keywords

Afrotropical, autapomorphy, Kakamega Forest, Kenya, ovipositor, sheath

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