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Classification

Lutnes Cameron

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eupelmidae; Subfamily: Eupelminae)

Lutnes Cameron, 1884. Type species: Lutnes ornaticornis Cameron, by subsequent designation of Ashmead, 1904.
Parooderelloides Girault, 1913: 67–68. Type species: Parooderelloides biguttata Girault, by monotypy and original designation. Synonymy by Gibson (1995).
Argaleostatus Gibson, 1995: 147–150. Type species: Eupelmus testaceus Cameron, by original designation. Synonymy by Gibson (2018).
Lutnes afrotropicus Gibson 2018

Distribution

Cameroon. Distribution centered in the Neotropical region.

Biology

Possibly egg parasitoids based on possession of bidentate mandibles (Gibson, 2018).

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies, or the superfamily Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1, i–xi, 225–551, pls. xxxi–xxxix. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10341

Cameron, P. 1884. Hymenoptera (Families Tenthredinidae—Chrysididae). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, 1, 1–487, 20 pls.

Gibson, G.A.P. 1995. Parasitic wasps of the subfamily Eupelminae: classification and revision of world genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 5: 421 pp.

Gibson, G.A.P. 2018. Revision of Lutnes Cameron (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae). Zootaxa 4415: 330–356. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4415.2.5

Credits

Photographs © Gary Gibson (CNCI, Ottawa). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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