Oberthuerella_eschara

Oberthuerella eschara Buffington & van Noort

Oberthuerella cyclopia Buffington & van Noort, 2012. Holotype: USNM Type Locality: Montserrado Co., Mount Coffee (Liberia).

Distribution	Liberia. MAP
Diagnosis	Distinguished from all other species of Oberthuerella by the unique lower facial sculpturing of the head, with two convergent, densely horizontally striate bands that meet mid-face. In other species, the face ranges from entirely foveate to horizontally striate, but never with two distinct bands of striations. This species is further characterized by the circum clypeal carina; this character has not been observed in any other species of Oberthuerella.
Etymology	Latin for scar, in reference to the scar-like dorso-ventral bands on the face.
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 202: 1-154. 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 © Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS)
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