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Oberthuerella tibialis Kieffer

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

Oberthuerella tibialis Kieffer, 1904. Holotype: in Naturhistoriches Riksmuseet, Stockhlm (NHRS). Type Locality: Cameroon

HOLOTYPE  
 
NON-TYPE in Geneva  
 

Distribution

Cameroon, South Africa; Zimbabwe. MAP

Diagnosis

This species is most easily confused with O. pardolatus, but can seperated from that species by: 5 subfovea present at base of scutellum (7 in O. pardolatus); admedial lines indistinct (distinct in O. pardolatus); mesoscutum dominated by very shallow fovea (deep and distinct in O. pardolatus).

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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