Tessmannella

Tessmannella spinosa Hedicke

Tessmannella spinosa Hedicke 1912. Holotype: in ZMHU. Type Locality: Uelleburg (Equatorial Guinea).

Distribution	Equatorial Guinea. [http://hol.osu.edu/map-full.html?id=181551]
Diagnosis	Closely resembles T. expansa and T. nigra by having the entire forewing uniformly infuscate (medially hyaline in T. copelandi, T. kiplingi and T.roberti); distinguished from T. expansa and T. nigra by the possession of a circum clypeal carina (lacking in these latter species).
Etymology
Biology	Unknown.
References	Buffington, M.L. & van Noort, S. 2012. Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea: Liopteridae). Zookeys 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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