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Two new species of the braconid wasp genus Bracon (Braconinae) from Los Tuxtlas region in Veracruz, Mexico, reared from fruits of three species of Lauraceae

  • 1. Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Unidad de Posgrado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. Departamento de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. ednars@cienias.unam.mx; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8955-5595.
  • 2. Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Unidad de Posgrado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. Departamento de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. ednars@cienias.unam.mx; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8955-5595. & Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. ljgiraldok@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4946-4714.
  • 3. Integrative Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. d.quicke@email.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4471-6775.
  • 4. Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. *Corresponding author. azaldivar@ib.unam.mx; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5837-1929

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Rodríguez-Sánchez, Edna, Giraldo-Kalil, Laura J., Quicke, Donald L. J., Zaldívar-Riverón, Alejandro (2022): Two new species of the braconid wasp genus Bracon (Braconinae) from Los Tuxtlas region in Veracruz, Mexico, reared from fruits of three species of Lauraceae. Zootaxa 5162 (1): 67-77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.1.4

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