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Family Braconidae - Braconid Wasps


Epsilogaster fullertoni, a new species of Epsilogaster Whitfield and Mason (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Mendesellinae) from Florida
By Pitz, Kevin M.
Zootaxa 716: 1-7, 2004
Description of new species, and 4 new records of Epsilogaster species in Nearctic.
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The Aphidiinae of North America (Braconidae: Hymenoptera)
By Smith, C. F.
Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012
Originally published in 1944 (Ohio State University Contributions in Zoology and Entomology 6:1-154)
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A taxonomic study of Nearctic Ascogaster and a description of a new genus Leptodrepana (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
By Scott R Shaw
Entomography 2: 1-54, 1983

Revision of the New World genera Adelius Haliday and Paradelius de Saeger (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae: Adeliini)
By Eduardo M. Shimbori, Marco A. Bortoni, Scott R. Shaw, Carolina S. Souza-Gessner, Paula C.M. Cerântola, Angélica M. Penteado-Di
Zootaxa 4571 (2): 151–200, 2019

A taxonomic review of the parasitoid wasp genera Furcidentia Zettel and Pseudophanerotoma Zettel from the Neotropics...
By Rebecca N. Kittel
Zootaxa 4486 (2): 146-160, 2018
Full title: A taxonomic review of the parasitoid wasp genera Furcidentia Zettel and Pseudophanerotoma Zettel (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) from the Neotropics with the description of four new species

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.4

Molecular and morphological phylogenetics of chelonine parasitoid wasps, w/ a critical assessment of divergence time estimation
By Rebecca N. Kittel, Andrew D. Austin, & Seraina Klopfstein
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 101: 224–241, 2016
Full title: Molecular and morphological phylogenetics of chelonine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with a critical assessment of divergence time estimations

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.016

Phylogeny of the Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with a Revised Tribal Classification and the Description of a New Genus
By Michael J Sharkey & Eric G Chapman
Entomological Society of Washington 119(sp1):823-842, 2017

Description of Chilearinus Sharkey gen. nov. and status of Nearctic Earinus Wesmael, 1837 with the description of new species
By Michael J. Sharkey, Austin Baker, Ramya Manjunath, & Paul D. N. Hebert
ZooKeys 1099: 57-86, 2022
Full title: Description of Chilearinus Sharkey gen. nov. and status of Nearctic Earinus Wesmael, 1837 (Braconidae, Agathidinae) with the description of new species

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