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Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia

  • 1. Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia. South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia
  • 2. Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia. South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia & andy.austin@adelaide.edu.au, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9602-2276
  • 3. Students and teachers of Cowell Area School, Macclesfield Primary School, Ramco Primary School and Waikerie Primary School, Australia.

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Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D., Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect (2021): Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia. Zootaxa 4949 (1): 79-101, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4

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