Discovery of rodrigama gauld in the old world, with description of two new species (hymenoptera, ichneumonidae, poemeniinae)

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• who: JHR et al. from the species known at the time, Rodrigama gamezi GauldThey regarded the genus Pseudorhyssa Merrill as the sister group to all other Poemeniinae and erected the tribe Pseudorhyssini. Pseudorhyssa is somewhat aberrant among the subfamily and Quicke et_al (2009) noted that it might deserve its own subfamily status. The apparently primitive genus, Rodrigama, was known from only a single species, R. gamezi, described from Costa Rica. The isolated distribution of this archaic genus in Mesoamerica was anomalous and did not fit the hypothesis of an Holarctic origin of the Poemeniinae (Wahl and Gauld . . .
  

   

  

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