Colastomion pukpuk

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ichneumonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Ichneumonoidea

Familia: Braconidae
Genus: Colastomion
Species: Colastomion pukpuk

Name

• Colastomion pukpuk Quicke in Quicke, Smith, Miller, Hrcek & Butcher, 2012: figs. 48–51, 55

Holotype: USNM ENT 00505491; BOLD ASQSP060-08; Genbank JF271303, ♀.

Type locality: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, Wamangu, 11-Mar-05, 143°39.125'E, 03°47.228'S, 100m, PSS, ex caterpillar on Psychotria micrococca (Laut. & Schum.) Val. (Rubiaceae).

Etymology: Pukpuk in Melanesian Pidgin means crocodile, a favourite of the indigenous people living around Sepik river.

References

• Quicke, Donald L.J., M. Alex Smith, Scott E. Miller, Jan Hrcek & Buntika A. Butcher, 2012: Colastomion Baker (Braconidae, Rogadinae): nine new species from Papua New Guinea reared from Crambidae. Journal of Hymenoptera research, 28: 85–21. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.28.3484.