Baeoentedon bouceki
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| Baeoentedon bouceki | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Eulophidae |
| Subfamily: | Entedoninae |
| Genus: | Baeoentedon |
| Species: | B. bouceki |
| Binomial name | |
| Baeoentedon bouceki Wang, Huang & Polaszek, 2014 | |
Baeoentedon bouceki is a species of wasp, one of the first three members of the genus Baeoentedon to be discovered in China. It is less than a millimetre in length, with a head slightly wider than the middle portion of the body. Only one specimen has been studied, collected from Hainan in 1983. As that specimen is female, the appearance of males is unknown.
The genus that Baeoentedon bouceki belongs to, Baeoentedon, was erected in 1915 by Alexandre Arsène Girault. It contained a single species, B. peculicornis, known only from a single female from Queensland, Australia. No further biological information or additional species were identified until 2014, when Zhu-Hong Wang, Jian Huang, and Andrew Polaszek published descriptions of three new Chinese species, including B. bouceki. The holotype of B. bouceki was originally collected from the Jian Feng Mountains in Hainan, China in 1983, by Zdeněk Bouček, in honour of whom the species is named.[1]