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Oberthuerella nigra Kieffer

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

Oberthuerella nigra Kieffer 1910. Holotype: in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldtuniversität, Berlin (ZMHB). Type Locality: Equatorial Guinea
   

Distribution

Equatorial Guinea.

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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