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European Journal of Taxonomy · 2024

Small jewels: two new species of the rare genus Masona van Achterberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae), with a catalogue of world species and comments on the peculiar morphology of the genus

Davide Dal Pos1, Gavin R. Broad2, Abigail P. Martens3

  1. 1 Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando 4110 Libra Dr. Rm 442, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
  2. 2 The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom
  3. 3 Department of Agronomy, Horticulture, and Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA'

Abstract

A comprehensive review of the enigmatic genus Masona van Achterberg is provided. Two new species are described from the USA: Masona neon Dal Pos & Martens sp. nov. from Puerto Rico, and Masona wow Dal Pos & Martens sp. nov. from California. A key to the world species of Masona is presented, together with a discussion of the morphology of the genus and an annotated catalogue of the species. [Masona] timpaynei,/i> Quicke, 2019, is excluded from Braconidae and placed as incertae sedis in the Ichneumonidae, subfamily Neorhacodinae.
Taxonomy & systematicsBraconidae
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