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Liopteron abdominale Westwood, 1874
(Brazil) |
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Liopteron apicale Westwood,
1874 (Brazil) |
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Liopteron
bicolor Hedicke, 1940 (Bolivia) |
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Liopteron bispinosum Kerrich, 1940 (French Guiana) |
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Liopteron
compressum
Perty, 1833 (Brazil) |
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Liopteron compressum
minus Kerrich, 1940 (Brazil,
Peru) |
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Liopteron immarginatum Kerrich, 1940 (Brazil) |
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Liopteron levilaterale Kerrich, 1940 (Brazil) |
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Liopteron nigripenne Westwood,
1874 (Brazil) |
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Liopteron species |
Distribution
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Neotropical region. |
Biology
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Unknown, but possibly parasitoids of wood-boring insects
(Coleoptera: Buprestidae; Hymenoptera: Siricidae). |
References
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Hedicke, H., and G. Kerrich. 1940. A revision of the family
Liopteridae (Hymenopt., Cynipoidea). Transactions of the Royal
Entomologocal Society, London 90: 177–228.
Ronquist, F. 1995. Phylogeny and classification of the
Liopteridae, an archaic group of cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera).
Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement 46: 1-74.
Ronquist, F.
1999.
Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea. Zoologica
Scripta 28:139–164. |
Credits
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Photographs © Matt Buffington (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA/ARS).
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