Oberthuerella_compressa

Oberthuerella compressa Benoit

Oberthuerella compressa Benoit 1955. Holotype: in Africa Museum, Tervuren. Type Locality: Bena Bendi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Junior synonym of Oberthuerella crassicornis.

Distribution	Democratic Republic of Congo. MAP
Diagnosis	This species is a junior synonym of Oberthuerella crassicornis, which is most easily confused with O. longispinosa and O. abscinda, but can be separated from the former by the incomplete median keel on the face (complete and of consistent width from the toruli to the dorsal margin of the clypeus), and from the latter by the legs being all yellow/orange (dark brown/black in O. abscinda).
Etymology
Biology	Unknown.
References	Benoit, P.L.G. 1955. Les Liopteridae Oberthurellinae du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 52: 283–293. Buffington, M.L. & van Noort, S. 2012. Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea: Liopteridae). Zookeys Quinlan, J. 1979. A revisionary classification of the Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) of the Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region. Aspicerinae (Figitidae) and Oberthuerellinae (Liopteridae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 39: 85-133. Ronquist, F. 1995. Phylogeny and classification of the Liopteridae, an archaic group of cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 46: 1-74.
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums) Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS) played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages
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