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- 1. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Depto. de Ciências Biológicas, Av. Fernando Ferrari, s/n - Goiabeiras, 29075-010 Vitoria, ES, BRAZIL, e-mail: aguiar.2@osu.edu
- 2. Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, 501 ASI Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA,
- 3. Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA, e-mail: msengel@ku.edu
- 4. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, SWEDEN,
- 5. Canadian National Collection of Insects (CNC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, CANADA, e-mail: john.huber@agr.gc.ca
- 6. School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, G15d Darling Building, The University of Adelaide, 5005, AUSTRALIA,
- 7. Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, Director C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection, The Ohio State University, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43212, USA, e-mail: johnson.2@osu.edu
- 8. Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok-22, 690022, RUSSIA, e-mail: lelej@biosoil.ru Department of Biology, 257 S 1400 E, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA, e-mail: jacklongino@gmail.com Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, GERMANY, current address Übersee-Museum Bremen, Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts, Bahnhofsplatz 13, 28195 Bremen, GERMANY,
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Aguiar, Alexandre P., Deans, Andrew R., Engel, Michael S., Forshage, Mattias, Huber, John T., Jennings, John T., Johnson, Norman F., Lelej, Arkady S., Longino, John T., Lohrmann, Volker, Mikó, István, Ohl, Michael, Rasmussen, Claus, Taeger, Andreas, Yu, Dicky Sick Ki (2013): Order Hymenoptera*. Zootaxa 3703 (1): 51-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12
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