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Oberthuerella nigrescens Benoit

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

Oberthuerella nigrescens Benoit 1955. Holotype: Type Locality:

Oberthuerella_sp2_habitus

 Oberthuerella_sp2_head_mesosoma_dorsal
Oberthuerella_sp2_head_mesosoma_lateral Oberthuerella_sp2_head_frontal
Oberthuerella_sp2_metasoma_lateral Oberthuerella_sp2_scutellum
Oberthuerella_sp2_scutellum_petiole_dorsal Oberthuerella_sp2_wings
Oberthuerella_sp2_data_labels  

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda

Biology

Unknown

Reference

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

Credits

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