title: The subfamily Mendesellinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Brazil, with the description of six new species.
abstract: In this paper, we study the Mendesellinae wasps from Brazil deposited at Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva da Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil collection. Two new species of Epsilogaster (E. masoni sp. n. and E. whitfieldi sp. n.) and four new species of Mendesella (M. albipleura sp. n., M. itatiaia sp. n., M. japi sp. n., M. yamadai sp. n.) are described and illustrated.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, CP 676, CEP 13 565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil. marcoabortoni@yahoo.com.br.
authors.forename: Marco Aurélio
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bortoni
authors.forename: Carolina DA Silva
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Souza-Gessner
authors.forename: Angélica Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Penteado-Dias
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity; D014863:Wasps / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*
keywords: Hymenoptera, Biodiversity, Ichneumonoidea, Neotropical Region, Parasitoid