Taxonomy of Bethylus (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from China with description of nine new species

Chung-Hong Wang; Jun-Hua He; Xue-Xin Chen

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.6

Taxonomy of Bethylus (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from China with description of nine new species

Zootaxa. 2021 May 20;4974(2):361382. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.6.

Authors

Chung-Hong Wang¹, Jun-Hua He², Xue-Xin Chen³

Affiliations

¹ Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. joycek0324@163.com.
² Institute of Insect Sciences, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. user@example.com.
³ State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China Institute of Insect Sciences, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. xxchen@zju.edu.cn.

PMID: 34186853
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.6

Abstract

Nine new species as well as a known species of Bethylus Latreille (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from China are described and illustrated: B. crassicapitis sp. nov., B. convexus sp. nov., B. gansensis sp. nov., B. glabricarinatus sp. nov., B. hunanensis sp. nov., B. incurvus sp. nov., B. ningxicus sp. nov., B. prolatus sp. nov., B. quadraticapitis sp. nov., and B. sinensis Xu, He Terayama. A key to the known Chinese species is provided.

MeSH terms

Animals
China
Hymenoptera / classification*