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Description of Males from Three Species of Eumeninae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

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The external morphology and genitalia of the males of Stenonartonia mimica (Kohl 1907), Sphaeromenes discrepatus Giordani Soika, 1978 and Gamma bolivianum flavior Giordani Soika, 1990 are described for the first time.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Bolívar R. Garcete-Barrett for the identification of Stenonartonia mimica. YCG thanks the “Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo” (FAPESP, grant #2014/21665-3) for the financial support during his stay at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). RBL thanks the “Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior” (CAPES) for the financial assistance.

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  1. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Pós Graduação em Entomologia, Univ de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil

    Y C Grandinete & R B Lopes

  2. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), Depto de Zoologia e Botânica, Univ Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brasil

    Y C Grandinete, F B Noll & R B Lopes

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Grandinete, Y.C., Noll, F.B. & Lopes, R.B. Description of Males from Three Species of Eumeninae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Neotrop Entomol 46, 295–301 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-016-0465-z

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