Two new species of Clinocentrus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Argentina, with notes on South American species

Abstract

The Argentine species of the genus Clinocentrus Haliday are revised. Two new species are described, Clinocentrus mamull sp. nov. and Clinocentrus roigi sp. nov., which represent the southernmost records of the genus in South America. Additionally Clinocentrus nigripectus Enderlein is redescribed and a key to known South American species is provided.

Keywords:

• Rogadinae
• Clinocentrini
• new species
• key
• South America

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Sergey Belokobylskij (Museum and Institute of Zoology, Warsaw) for allowing me to study the type specimen described by Enderlein. Grateful thanks are also extended to Jenö Papp and Lázló Ronkay (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest) for their comments on the type specimens of C. seminiger Szépligeti. Diego Carpintero kindly separated and sorted specimens from light-trap samples. Collecting permits were provided by Administración de Parques Nacionales, Argentina and Dirección Provincial de Fauna, La Pampa, Argentina. Nicholas D'Avella and Daniela De Pasquale provided helpful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript.