Oberthuerella_pardolatus

Oberthuerella pardolatus Buffington & van Noort

Oberthuerella pardolatus Buffington & van Noort, 2012. Holotype: in MCZC. Type Locality: Lesse, 00°20'N 29°40'E (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Distribution	Democratic Republic of Congo. MAP
Diagnosis	This species has a somewhat unique foveal pattern on the pronotum and mesoscutum, where the inter-foveal space is wide and shagreened; another species with this wide inter-foveal space is O. kibalensis, but in that species, there are 5 subfovea at the anterior base of scutellum (three subfovea in O. pardolatus).
Etymology	Latin for leopard, in reference to the fovea that resemble leapard spots on the pronotum and mesoscutum.
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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