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The Braconidae composition of two Citrus orchards surrounded by Amazon rainforest was investigated. To compare the composition of Braconidae in orchards and forest were installed eighteen modified Malaise traps distributed in a gradient that started inside the orchard 80 meters from the edge extending up to 80meters from the border inside the forest. The composition of Braconidae differed between forest and orchard, abundance in orchard was lower when compared with the forest and the diversity were higher inside forest. Differences found in the composition is associated with factors such as the presence of hosts in the environment. Was found some potential genera like Utetes, and Pholetesor that can be used in biological control of citrus pests.

Two new genera of Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) are described, Parsteres n. gen., Tuberatra n. gen., and are added to the identification key of Marsh (1997). Three new species are also described: P. pilosus n. sp., T. curvicauda n. sp., and Barbalhoa longicaudus n. sp. An identification key to the species of Barbalhoa Marsh, 2002 is presented, and nine species of the subfamily have their first record for Brazil.

This paper provided a list of all new Brazilian Hexapoda species described in 2020. Furthermore, based on the information extracted by this list, we tackled additional questions regarding the taxa, the specialists involved in the species descriptions as well as the journals in which those papers have been published. We recorded a total of 680 new Brazilian species of Hexapoda described in 2020, classified in 245 genera, 112 families and 18 orders. These 680 species were published in a total of 2019 articles comprising 423 different authors residing in 27 countries. Only 30% of these authors are women, which demonstrates an inequality regarding sexes. In relation to the number of authors by species, the majority of the new species had two authors and the maximum of authors by species was five. We also found inequalities in the production of described species regarding the regions of Brazil, with Southeast and South leading. The top 10 institutions regarding productions of new species have four in the Southeast, two at South and with one at North Region being the outlier of this pattern. Out of the total 219 published articles, Zootaxa dominated with 322 described species in 95 articles. The average impact factor was of 1.4 with only seven articles being published in Impact Factors above 3, indicating a hardship on publishing taxonomic articles in high-impact journals. The highlight of this paper is that it is unprecedent, as no annual record of Hexapoda species described was ever made in previous years to Brazil.

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