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AN INDIAN AGRIOTYPUS (HYMENOPTERA: AGRIOTYPIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. R. M. Mason
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa

Abstract

A striking new species, Agriotypus himalensis, is described from Assam (India) at 7200 ft in the Himalayas. The family Agriotypidae is maintained as distinct because of the structure of the adult abdomen and larval head.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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