Paramblynotus yangambicola (Benoit)

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

Decellea yangambicola Benoit 1956.

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda.

Biology

Data labels: "ex Lepidoptera", "ex Coleoptera". Type female captured on a log of Drypetes gossweileri (Euphorbiaceae).

Reference

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

Credits

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Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages

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