Araucania is an invalid genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae, found in South America. There are at least two described species in Araucania.[1][2]
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Genus: | Araucania Marsh, 1993
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The valid genus Araucania Pate 1947, in the family Sapygidae, has nomenclatural precedence over the braconid name, published in 1993,[3] so the latter name must be replaced, following the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Article 52.2.[note 1]
Species
edit- Araucania maculipennis Marsh, 1993
- Araucania penai Marsh, 1993
References
edit- ^ "Araucania". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- ^ "Araucania taxonomic tree". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
- ^ Marsh, Paul M. (1993). "Descriptions of new Western Hemisphere genera of the subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)". Contributions of the American Entomological Institute. 28 (1).
Further reading
edit- Marsh, Paul M.; Shaw, Scott R.; Wharton, Robert A. (1987). "An identification manual for the North American genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington.
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