A New Species of Closterocerus From California (Hymenoptera Eulophidæ)

Pseudobaeospora aphana, a new species from California.

Pseudobaeospora aphana, characterized by a brownish pileus with a lilac sheen, yellowish lamellae, a cutis of narrow hyphae on a subpellis of relatively wide and short cells, absence of cheilocystidia and color changes in KOH, and abundant clamp connections, is described as new. It was discovered during the Jan 2007 Mycoblitz at Point Reyes National Seashore, the fourth such event in an ongoing...

A new species of eurytoma illiger (hymenoptera: eurytomidae) parasitic on eulecanium rugulosum arch.(homoptera: coccidae) from iran

A new species of Asphinctopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Tanzania

Asphinctopone is a rarely encountered genus of ponerine ants, previously known only from the wet forest zones of West and central Africa. In the most recent revision of the genus Bolton & Fisher synonymised the three previously described species under A. sylvestrii Santschi and described one new but very closely related species, A. differens Bolton & Fisher. A very distinctive new species, Asph...

A new species of Quexua from southeastern Peru (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

A distinctive new species of the crabronine wasp genus Quexua Pate is described and figured from a single male collected from lowland Amazonian rain forest in southeastern Peru. Quexua cicrasp. n. is the only species in the genus known with a sessile metasoma.

A new species of Stigmatomma from Taiwan (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae)

Stigmatomma is the most speciose ant genus in the subfamily Amblyoponinae. In the present paper, the worker caste of a new species is described, S. luyiaesp. n., which was collected from a soil sample in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in Taiwan. An identification key to the females of Stigmatomma species with 11 antennomeres occurring in Asia is also provided.