Revista peruana de biología 21(1): 003 - 060 (2014) ISSN-L 1561-0837 Revision of the South American wasp genus ALOPHOPHION doi: http://doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v21i1.8245 FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS BIOLÓGICAS UNMSM TRABAJOS ORIGINALES Revision of the South American wasp genus Alophophion Cushman, 1947 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae) Revisión del genero de avipas sudamericanas Alophophion Cushman, 1947 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae) Mabel Alvarado1,2 1 Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Abstract and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive – Suite 140, University of The species of the strictly Neotropical ophionine wasp genus Alophophion Cushman, 1947 are Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA revised. New descriptions of all previously named species are provided, except Alophophion 2 Departamento de Entomología, Museo de holosericeus (Taschenberg, 1875) for which the type series is lost and the name is herein Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor considered a nomen dubium. The female of A. flavorufus(Brullé, 1846) is described for the first de San Marcos. Av. Arenales 1256 Jesús María, time. Four informal species groups are proposed based on the morphology of the mandibles, Lima 14, Perú development of the malar space, and general proportions of the head (i.e., development of the face and gena). Whereas the genus previously included only seven named species, it is Email Mabel Alvarado:
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