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Tessmannella expansa Quinlan

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

Tessmannella expansa Quinlan 1979. Holotype: (MNHN). Type Locality: Moyen-Ogooué Prov., Lambaréné (Gabon).

Distribution

 Gabon. MAP

Diagnosis

 Closely resembles T. nigra and T. spinosa in having fully infuscate wings; differented from these species having the medial facial area horizontally striate (shagreened in T. spinosa), and by having the ventral malar margin distinctly striate (gently shagreened in T. nigra).

Biology

Unknown.

References

Buffington, M.L. & van Noort, S. 2012. Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea: Liopteridae). Zookeys 202: 1-154.

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) and Mattias Forshage (Swedish Museum of Natural History) both played an integral role in the development of the Cynipoidea pages.
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