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Oberthuerella crassicornis Benoit

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

Oberthuerella crassicornis Benoit 1955. Holotype: in Africa Museum, Tervuren. Type Locality: Eala, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Oberthuerella compressa Benoit 1955. Holotype: in Africa Museum, Tervuren. Type Locality: Bena Bendi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Synonymy by Quinlan (1979).
 

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Benoit, P.L.G. 1955. Les Liopteridae Oberthurellinae du Congo Belge. Revue de Zoologie

et de Botanique Africaines 52: 283–293.

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

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