Aleiodes colberti

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Aleiodes colberti
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Braconidae
Genus: Aleiodes
Species:
A. colberti
Binomial name
Aleiodes colberti
Shimbori & Shaw, 2014

Aleiodes colberti is a species of parasitoid wasp in the family Braconidae. It was discovered in Ecuador. [1]

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References

  1. Shimbori, E. M.; Shaw, S. R. (2014). "Twenty-four new species of Aleiodes Wesmael from the eastern Andes of Ecuador with associated biological information (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) - PMC". ZooKeys (405): 1–81. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.405.7402 . PMC   4023268 . PMID   24843275.