2020•Proceedings of the Entomological Society of WashingtonRequires access

A New Species of the Afrotropical Braconine (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) Parasitoid Wasp Genus Doggerella with Remarkable Ovipositor Sheaths

Donаld L. J. Quicke, Robert S. Copeland, Buntikа А. Butcher

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Doggerella knobkerrie Quicke, new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae), from Kenya is described and illustrated photographically. The description is justified because of the remarkably developed, club-like, ovipositor sheaths, not known elsewhere in the Ichneumonoidea.

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Key concepts: Braconidae, Ovipositor, Hymenoptera, Parasitoid, Biology, Genus, Zoology