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Lutnes Cameron
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Chalcidoidea; Family: Eupelmidae; Subfamily:
Eupelminae)
Lutnes
Cameron, 1884.
Type species: Lutnes ornaticornis Cameron, by subsequent designation of
Ashmead, 1904.
Parooderelloides Girault, 1913: 67–68. Type species: Parooderelloides
biguttata Girault, by monotypy and original designation. Synonymy by Gibson
(1995).
Argaleostatus Gibson, 1995: 147–150. Type species: Eupelmus testaceus
Cameron, by original designation. Synonymy by Gibson (2018). |
Distribution |
Cameroon. Distribution centered in the Neotropical
region. |
Biology |
Possibly egg parasitoids based on possession of
bidentate mandibles (Gibson, 2018). |
References |
Ashmead, W.H. 1904.
Classification of the chalcid flies, or the superfamily
Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie
Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith.
Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, 1, i–xi, 225–551, pls.
xxxi–xxxix.
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10341
Cameron, P. 1884. Hymenoptera (Families
Tenthredinidae—Chrysididae). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta,
1, 1–487, 20 pls.
Gibson, G.A.P. 1995.
Parasitic wasps of the subfamily Eupelminae: classification and
revision of world genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eupelmidae).
Memoirs on Entomology, International 5: 421 pp.
Gibson, G.A.P. 2018.
Revision of Lutnes Cameron (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae).
Zootaxa 4415: 330–356.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4415.2.5 |
Credits |
Photographs
© Gary Gibson (CNCI, Ottawa). Map illustration
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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