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Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Student Competition 10-Minute Paper

Grad SysEB: Hymenoptera

A revision of Kenyan Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on morphological and molecular data

Monday, November 1, 2021
10:42 AM - 10:54 AM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room 205
In-Person Student Competition

    Presenting Author(s)

  • Ilgoo Kang

    PhD Candidate
    Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
    Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    • Co-Author(s)

  • MS

    Michael Sharkey

    The Hymenoptera Institute
    Redlands, California

  • Rodrigo Diaz

    Louisiana State University
    Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Cardiochiline braconids display high species richness in the Afrotropical region. Thirty-nine species, which account for 18% of cardiochiline species in the world have been recorded from the Afrotropical region. Despite this regional richness, only three cardiochiline species in the genus, Schoenlandella Cameron, 1904 have been recorded from Kenya: S. minor (Szépligeti, 1914), S. tegularis (Brues, 1924), S. testacea (Kriechbaumer, 1894). In the current work, we confirmed twenty species in five genera, including newly recorded and new taxa from the country: Austrocardiochiles Dangerfield, Austin, & Whitfield, Bohayella Belokobylskij, Cardiochilies Nees, Hansonia Dangerfield, and Schoenlandella. In this presentation, we will show how we utilized both morphological and molecular data to delimit species and confirm their genus-level relationships.