A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae)

Abstract. Ten alberti-group species of the genus Metaphycus Mercet from China are reviewed. Six species Metaphycus dorsalis sp. n., Metaphycus chinensis sp. n., Metaphycus wui sp. n., Metaphycus stylatus sp. n., Metaphycus fusiscapus sp. n. and Metaphycus fusiformis sp. n. are described as new to sc...

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Autores principales: Wang, Ying, Li, Cheng-De, Zhang, Yan-Zhou
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23798896
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.285.4142
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description Abstract. Ten alberti-group species of the genus Metaphycus Mercet from China are reviewed. Six species Metaphycus dorsalis sp. n., Metaphycus chinensis sp. n., Metaphycus wui sp. n., Metaphycus stylatus sp. n., Metaphycus fusiscapus sp. n. and Metaphycus fusiformis sp. n. are described as new to science. Four known species from China are redescribed. A key to the females of the Chinese species is given and photomicrographs are provided to illustrate morphological characters of these species. All specimens unless otherwise specified are deposited in the National Zoological Museum of China Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing.
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spelling pubmed-36907572013-06-24 A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) Wang, Ying Li, Cheng-De Zhang, Yan-Zhou Zookeys Article Abstract. Ten alberti-group species of the genus Metaphycus Mercet from China are reviewed. Six species Metaphycus dorsalis sp. n., Metaphycus chinensis sp. n., Metaphycus wui sp. n., Metaphycus stylatus sp. n., Metaphycus fusiscapus sp. n. and Metaphycus fusiformis sp. n. are described as new to science. Four known species from China are redescribed. A key to the females of the Chinese species is given and photomicrographs are provided to illustrate morphological characters of these species. All specimens unless otherwise specified are deposited in the National Zoological Museum of China Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing. Pensoft Publishers 2013-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3690757/ /pubmed/23798896 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.285.4142 Text en Ying Wang, Cheng-De Li, Yan-Zhou Zhang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Li, Cheng-De
Zhang, Yan-Zhou
A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae)
title A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae)
title_full A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae)
title_fullStr A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae)
title_full_unstemmed A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae)
title_short A taxonomic study of Chinese species of the alberti group of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae)
title_sort taxonomic study of chinese species of the alberti group of metaphycus (hymenoptera, encyrtidae)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23798896
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.285.4142
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