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Peras Westwood

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

Peras Westwood, 1837

ClassificationLiopteridae keys
 

Peras biroi (Kerrich, 1940) (Peru)

Peras clavicorne (Westwood, 1874) (Brazil)

Peras fenestratum (Ashmead, 1895) (Brazil)

Peras fuscicorne (Westwood, 1874) (Brazil)

Peras intermedium (Kerrich, 1940) (Brazil)

Peras intermedium autazense (Kerrich, 1940) (Brazil)

Peras laticeps (Kerrich, 1940) (Brazil)

Peras nigra Westwood, 1837 (French Guiana)

Peras rufipes (Kieffer, 1911) (Brazil, Mexico)

Peras scaberrimum Kieffer, 1911 (Brazil, Mexico)

Peras subpetiolatum (Westwood, 1874) (Brazil)
Peras species (Peru)

Distribution

Neotropical region.

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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