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Revision of the genus Napamus Papp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae)

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World representatives of the genus Napamus (Papp, 1993) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) are reviewed, and their relationships are discussed on the basis of external morphological characters. The only two species described to date are recognized, redescribed and illustrated: Napamus vipio (Reinhard, 1880) and Napamus zomborii (Papp, 1993). Information about their hosts and distribution is also given. Napamus vipio is recorded for the first time from Bulgaria as well as Iran. In order to establish the identity and stabilize the nomenclature of Napamus vipio, a lectotype and paralectotypes are designated.

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Acknowledgements

Our sincere gratitude to Dr. Zoltán Vas, Dr. Tamás Németh (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Hungary) and Dr. Dominique Zimmerman (Natural History Museum of Wien, Vienna, Austria) for providing us specimens, facilities, and for their kind hospitality during the visit of the first author. My sincere thanks, are also given to Drs Michael Ohl (Head of Department in Museum für Naturkunde—Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Germany) and Jutta Helbig (Collection Manager in the same section of ZMHB) for their generous helps in providing type images. The manuscript benefitted greatly from comments by José Fernández-Triana (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Canada). We would like to thank Diana Carolina Arias-Penna (University of Illinois, Urbana, United States of America) and Erinn P. Fagan-Jeffries (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia) for their detailed comments and insightful suggestions which led to a significant improvement of the paper. MGM offer also final thanks to Mr. Farshid Sheikhalizadeh (Technische Universität Wien, Austria) for kindly provided help during his studies in Wien, Austria.

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This study was supported by ER, grant number [No. UOZ-GR-9618–6] in the University of Zabol, Iran.

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  1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, P.O. Box: 98615–538, Zabol, Iran

    Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam, Ehsan Rakhshani & Azizollah Mokhtari

  2. State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Agricultural Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, and Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Cornelis van Achterberg

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Ghafouri Moghaddam, M., Rakhshani, E., van Achterberg, C. et al. Revision of the genus Napamus Papp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae). Int J Trop Insect Sci 41, 2529–2542 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-021-00433-7

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