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Afronympha, a new genus of Entedoninae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from the rainforests of Africa

  • 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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