Redescription of Calohelcon Turner (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae), description of a new species, and a reappraisal of the significance of certain character states in the Helconinae

D. J. Quicke; G. Holloway

DOI:10.3853/J.0067-1975.43.1991.43

Corpus ID: 85075985

Redescription of Calohelcon Turner (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae), description of a new species, and a reappraisal of the significance of certain character states in the Helconinae

@article{Quicke1991RedescriptionOC,
  title={Redescription of Calohelcon Turner (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae), description of a new species, and a reappraisal of the significance of certain character states in the Helconinae},
  author={D. J. Quicke and G. Holloway},
  journal={Records of The Australian Museum},
  year={1991},
  volume={43},
  pages={113-121}
}

D. J. Quicke, G. Holloway

Published 1991

Biology

Records of The Australian Museum

Calohelcon obscuripennis Turner is redescribed and illustrated for the first time. Calohelcon roddi n.sp. from New South Wales is described, illustrated and differentiated from C. obscuripennis. The hindwing of C. roddi possesses a distinct transverse vein m-cu, a feature unknown in any other Helconinae but present in many members of the 'cyclostome' subfamilies Doryctinae and Rogadinae, and in the apparently related Alysiinae, Betylobraconinae, Gnamptodontinae, Histeromerinae, Opiinae and… CONTINUE READING

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