The subfamily Mendesellinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Brazil, with the description of six new species

Abstract

In this paper, we study the Mendesellinae wasps from Brazil deposited at Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva da Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil collection. Two new species of Epsilogaster (E. masoni sp. n. and E. whitfieldi sp. n.) and four new species of Mendesella (M. albipleura sp. n., M. itatiaia sp. n., M. japi sp. n., M. yamadai sp. n.) are described and illustrated.

Hymenoptera fauna, with emphasis on Ichneumonidae from an area of Caatinga in Northeast Brazil

“…It is the only biome that is exclusively Brazilian, but only 2% of its area is covered for environmental preservation (IBGE 2004;leal et al 2005). Despite its extent, knowledge of Hymenoptera biodiversity in this biome is still quite incipient; the diversity of genera and species of this order being known primarily due to the descriptions and reports of the occurrence of Apidae, Braconidae, Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Eulophidae, Eurytomidae, Ichneumonidae, Sclerogibbidae and Plumariidae (zanella 2000;onodY & Penteado-dias 2002;Penteado-dias & scatolini 2003;Fernandes et al 2012Fernandes et al , 2014bFernandes et al , 2014candena & carPenter 2014;BarBosa & azevedo 2014;sHiMBori et al 2014;silva 2014;zanella & lucena 2014;Bortoni et al 2016;lucena et al 2016;castro & Penteadodias 2017;Fernandes et al 2019).…”