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Peras Westwood

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Cynipoidea; Family Liopteridae; Subfamily: Liopterinae; Genus: Peras)

Peras Westwood, 1837

ClassificationLiopteridae keys

Undescribed species from Peru.

Distribution

Peru.

Biology

Unknown, but possibly parasitoids of wood-boring insects (Coleoptera: Buprestidae; Hymenoptera: Siricidae).

References

Hedicke, H., and G. Kerrich. 1940. A revision of the family Liopteridae (Hymenopt., Cynipoidea). Transactions of the Royal Entomologocal Society, London 90: 177–228.

Ronquist, F. 1995. Phylogeny and classification of the Liopteridae, an archaic group of cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 46: 1-74.

Ronquist, F. 1999. Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica Scripta 28:139–164.

Credits

Photographs © Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS)

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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