The uncommon genus Hedychridium (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) in South America: new species and first record for Brazil

ABSTRACT

Hedychridium is recorded for the first time for Brazil. A new species from southeastern Brazil, Hedychridium periotoi sp. nov., is described and illustrated. So far, the single species known to South America has been Hedychridium argentinum Buysson, which is restricted to the western and southern parts of Argentina.

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KEYWORDS:

• Chrysidinae
• Chrysidoidea
• cuckoo wasps
• Elampini
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to the curators aforementioned who kindly loaned specimens under their stewardship. I am thankful to J. Amilcar Tavares Filho, D.S. Porto, N.S. Gibran and G. Yoshida for their assistance in the field. I would like to thank to E.A.B. Almeida and V. Soon for constructive comments on previous versions of the manuscript. I am also indebted to L. Santos and E. Almeida for their assistance at the MNHN collection.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo under grant [2015/12326-3] and it also benefited from grant [2011/09477-9] to E.A.B. Almeida.