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Paramblynotus Cameron

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

Paramblynotus Cameron 1908.

Distribution

Worlwide, except for Europe and Australia, with highest richness in the tropics or subtropics.

Biology

Probably a parasitoid of wood boring coleoptera larva

References

Liu, Z, Ronquist, F. & Nordlander, G. 2007. The cynipoid genus Paramblynotus: revision, phylogeny, and historical biogeography (Hymenoptera, Liopteridae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 304: 1-151.

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