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  1. Plant–herbivore–parasitoid systems are poorly studied in the tropics. Enicospilus carmenae Campos and Palacio sp. nov. are described, originating from southern Mexico in the Yucatan Peninsula and establishing a new tri-trophic interaction. This species is a koinobiont larval endoparasitoid of the American silkworm moth caterpillar Zanola verago (Cramer) (Lepidoptera: Apatelodidae) feeding on the shrub Piper neesianum C.DC. (Piperaceae) in a semi-evergreen forest. The host plant P. neesianum had no herbivore records to date, and a single collection event yielded the rearing of a new species of Enicospilus (Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae). Morphological, molecular (COI), biological, ecological, and geographical data are integrated to delineate the new species. 
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    For the first time in 21 years, a new genus of cardiochiline braconid wasp, Orientocardiochiles Kang & Long, gen. nov. (type species Orientocardiochiles joeburrowi Kang, sp. nov. ), is discovered and described. This genus represents the ninth genus in the Oriental region. Two new species ( O. joeburrowi Kang, sp. nov. and O. nigrofasciatus Long, sp. nov. ) are described and illustrated, and a key to species of the genus, with detailed images, is added. Diagnostic characters of the new genus are analyzed and compared with several other cardiochiline genera to allow the genus to key out properly using an existing generic treatment. The scientific names validated by this paper and morphological data obtained from this project will be utilized and tested in the upcoming genus-level revision of the subfamily based on combined morphological and molecular data. 
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