Abstract

MARTINEZ, Juan José  and  ZALDIVAR-RIVERON, Alejandro. Seven new species of Allorhogas (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodiv. [online]. 2013, vol.84, n.1, pp.117-139. ISSN 2007-8706.  https://doi.org/10.7550/rmb.31955.

Seven new Mexican species of the gall associated doryctine genus Allorhogas are described, illustrated and molecularly characterized: A. amuzgo sp. nov., A. coccolobae sp. nov., A. crassifemur sp. nov., A. jaliscoensis sp. nov., A. marshi sp. nov., A. parvus sp. nov., and A. scotti sp. nov. These new species were collected in tropical dry forests situated along the Pacific coast of Mexico in the states of Jalisco, Oaxaca and Guerrero. Allorhogas coccolobae was reared from leaf galls probably induced by an unidentified cecidomyiid (Diptera) on Coccoloba barbadensis Jacq., representing the first record of this genus on Polygonaceae galls. A key to the described Mexican species of Allorhogas is provided.

Keywords : galls; Insecta; Mexico; taxonomy.

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