First record of Acaenitinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from South America with description of a new species and a key to the world species of Arotes Gravenhorst

Castillo, CSaaksjarvi, LBennett, ABroad, G2019-04-242019-04-242011-10-142018-06-07Castillo C, Sääksjärvi IE, Bennett AMR, Broad GR (2011) First record of Acaenitinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from South America with description of a new species and a key to the world species of Arotes Gravenhorst. ZooKeys 137: 77–88. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.137.17881313-298910.3897/zookeys.137.1788http://hdl.handle.net/10141/622486A new species of Acaenitinae, Arotes ucumari Castillo & Sääksjärvi, sp. n., is described and illustrated representing the first record of the subfamily from South America. The new species was collected from a premontane tropical rain forest in the Peruvian Andes at 1500 m. A key to the world species of Arotes Gravenhorst, 1829 is provided. The subspecies Arotes albicinctus moiwanus (Matsumura, 1912) is raised to species rank, Arotes moiwanus stat. n.openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/First record of Acaenitinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from South America with description of a new species and a key to the world species of Arotes GravenhorstJournal Article1313-2970ZooKeys13777 - 88AmazoniaArotesNeotropicsparasitoid waspPerurainforest