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Pseudibalia Kieffer

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

Pseudibalia Kieffer, 1911

ClassificationLiopteridae keys
 

Pseudibalia angelicae Pujade-Villar, Ros-Farré, Brandao, 2000 (Brazil)

Pseudibalia antennale (Kerrich, 1940) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia bifasciata (Westwood, 1874) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia brasiliensis (Hedicke, 1940) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia brevicorne (Kerrich, 1940) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia confusum (Hedicke, 1940) (Peru)

Pseudibalia fasciatipennis Kieffer, 1909 (Brazil, Mexico)

Pseudibalia ruficeps (Kieffer, 1905) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia rufum (Ashmead, 1895) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia tarsale (Ashmead, 1895) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia unifasciatum (Westwood, 1874) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia weldi (Kerrich, 1940) (Brazil)

Pseudibalia westwoodii (Cameron, 1883) (Panama)

Distribution

Neotropical region.

Biology

Unknown, but possibly parasitoids of wood-boring insects (Coleoptera: Buprestidae; Hymenoptera: Siricidae).

References

Hedicke, H., and G. Kerrich. 1940. A revision of the family Liopteridae (Hymenopt., Cynipoidea). Transactions of the Royal Entomologocal Society, London 90: 177–228.

Pujade-Villar, J., Ros-Farré, P. & Brandao, C.R.F. 2000. Notes on Brazilian Liopteridae (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea), with the description of Pseudibalia angelicae n. sp. Papéis avulsos de zoologia (Brasil) 41(19): 289-301.

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

Photographs © Matt Buffington and Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)

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.

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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