A new species of Smicromorpha (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) from Vietnam, with notes on the host association of the genus

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Smicromorpha masneri Darling, sp. n. is described from Bach Ma National Park, Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam. This is the first confirmed record for the genus on mainland southeast Asia. It is generally accepted that species of Smicromorpha are parasitoids of green tree or weaver ants, Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius) but this is first rearing record of these parasitoids from the nests of weaver ants.

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Title: ZooKeys

Abbreviated Title: ZK

Publisher: Pensoft Publishers

ISSN (Electronic): 1313-2970

ISSN (Print): 1313-2989

Publication date Created: September 14 2009

Publication date (Electronic): September 14 2009

Volume: 20

Pages: 155-163

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DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.20.195

SO-VID: a6dd97d9-4bb3-4393-bbfb-426f306b0e98

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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