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Afronympha, a new genus of Entedoninae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from the rainforests of Africa
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- 1. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 15 Bogdan Khmelnitsky St., 01601 Kiev-30, Ukraine & School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2. Research and Exhibitions Department, South African Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa. svannoort@iziko.org.za; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-9741 & Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag Rondebosch, 7701
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Gumovsky, Alex, Noort, Simon Van (2022): Afronympha, a new genus of Entedoninae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from the rainforests of Africa. Zootaxa 5104 (2): 242-250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.4
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- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/20467
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- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C139FE1C-602B-4A8F-8E85-CBA601599B5B
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