Small jewels: two new species of the rare genus Masona van Achterberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae), with a catalogue of world species and comments on the peculiar morphology of the genus-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Small jewels: two new species of the rare genus Masona van Achterberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae), with a catalogue of world species and comments on the peculiar morphology of the genus

Published:2024-03-11 Issue: Volume:925 Page:
ISSN:2118-9773
Container-title:European Journal of Taxonomy
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Short-container-title:EJT

Author:

Dal Pos Davide^ORCID,Broad Gavin R.^ORCID,Martens Abigail P.^ORCID

Abstract

A comprehensive review of the enigmatic genus Masona van Achterberg is provided. Two new species are described from the USA: Masona neon Dal Pos & Martens sp. nov. from Puerto Rico, and Masona wow Dal Pos & Martens sp. nov. from California. A key to the world species of Masona is presented, together with a discussion of the morphology of the genus and an annotated catalogue of the species. [Masona] timpaynei Quicke, 2019, is excluded from Braconidae and placed as incertae sedis in the Ichneumonidae, subfamily Neorhacodinae.

Publisher

Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

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