Review of Mexican species of Diradops Townes, with a key and description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Banchinae)
D.R. Kasparyan & E. Ruíz Cancino
Abstract. A key to Nearctic and Mexican species of the genus Diradops is presented. A new species, D. pulcher sp. n., is described. Distribution of 7 Mexican species of Diradops is given; D. diora Ugalde & Gauld and D. yovera Ugalde & Gauld are recorded from Mexico for the first time.
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2007, 16(2): 263-268 ▪ Published in print 20 December 2007
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2007.16.2.263 ▪ Open full article 
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