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As a result of COI barcoding over 200 reared specimens of what appeared to be Cubus validus from northwestern Costa Rica, and matching them with their host caterpillars and morphological traits, we describe eleven new sympatric species. All are endoparasitoids of leaf-rolling Crambidae (Lepidoptera). The new species, authored by Zúñiga, Valerio & Hanson, are: Cubus alanflemingi, C. christhompsoni, C. curtsabrowskyi, C. duvalierbricenoi, C. gracewoodae, C. jeffcummingi, C. jimoharai, C. johnstiremani, C. manuelzumbadoi, C. montywoodi, and C. normwoodleyi. We also provide an illustrated key, a table of key morphological characters of each species, and a table of host records.
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