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Ypsilonigaster

Ypsilonigaster is a genus of wasp in the family Braconidae. There are about six described species in Ypsilonigaster, found in Africa and Indomalaya.

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Ypsilonigaster
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Braconidae
Subfamily: Microgastrinae
Genus: Ypsilonigaster
Fernandez-Triana, 2018

Ypsilonigaster is a genus of wasp in the family Braconidae. There are about six described species in Ypsilonigaster, found in Africa and Indomalaya.12

Species

These six species belong to the genus Ypsilonigaster:

  • Ypsilonigaster bumbana (de Saeger, 1942) (Congo)
  • Ypsilonigaster naturalis Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2018 ( Malaysia)
  • Ypsilonigaster pteroloba (de Saeger, 1944) (Congo)
  • Ypsilonigaster sharkeyi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2018 (Congo)
  • Ypsilonigaster tiger Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2018 (Thailand)
  • Ypsilonigaster zuparkoi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2018 (Madagascar)
References

References

  1. "Ypsilonigaster". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  2. Fernandez-Triana, Jose; Shaw, Mark R.; Boudreault, Caroline; Beaudin, Melanie; et al. (2020). "Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)". ZooKeys (920): 1–1089. Bibcode:2020ZooK..920....1F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.920.39128. PMC 7197271. PMID 32390740.