Oberthuerella\according to Noort et al 2015
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Liopteridae
Name
Oberthuerella Saussure, 1890 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Oberthuerella Saussure, 1890: plate 20, fig. 20. Type species: Oberthuerella lenticularis Saussure, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
Oberthuerella can be readily distinguished from Xenocynips by having distinct metasomal terga (tergites 3–5) with the inter-tergal sutures not fused. The mesopleuron is also distinctly concave, the concavity forming an oblique, shallow femoral groove; the mesopleural impression is absent and the ventral part of the mesopleuron is without horizontal, linear sculpture; the metatibial spurs are subequal in length, elongate. The lack of a pronotal crest produced into a conspicuous toothlike process easily distinguishes Oberthuerella from Tessmannella.
Identification
Dichotomous and online interactive keys to species are available in Buffington and van Noort (2012)[1] and van Noort (2004–2015)[2].
Distribution
Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Buffington and van Noort 2012[1]).
Biology
Unknown.
Species richness
Oberthuerella abscinda Quinlan, 1979 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia).
Oberthuerella aureopilosa Benoit, 1955 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Oberthuerella breviscutellaris Benoit, 1955 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe)
Oberthuerella crassicornis Benoit, 1955 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi).
syn Oberthuerella compressa Benoit, 1955
Oberthuerella cyclopia Buffington and van Noort, 2012 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Oberthuerella eschara Buffington and van Noort, 2012 (Liberia)
Oberthuerella kibalensis van Noort and Buffington, 2012 (Uganda)
Oberthuerella lenticularis Saussure, 1890 (Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa)
Oberthuerella longicaudata Benoit, 1955 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Oberthuerella longispinosa Benoit, 1955 (Democratic Republic of Congo; Gabon; Ivory Coast; Malawi)
Oberthuerella nigra Kieffer, 1910b (Equatorial Guinea)
Oberthuerella nigrescens Benoit, 1955 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Oberthuerella pardolatus Buffington and van Noort, 2012 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Oberthuerella sharkeyi Buffington and van Noort, 2012 (Republic of the Congo)
Oberthuerella simba Buffington and van Noort, 2012 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Oberthuerella tibialis Kieffer, 1904 (Cameroon, South Africa; Zimbabwe)
Oberthuerella transiens (Benoit, 1955) (Tessmanella) (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Oberthuerella triformis Quinlan, 1979 (Tanzania)
Taxon Treatment
- Noort, S; Buffington, M; Forshage, M; 2015: Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) ZooKeys, (493): 1-176. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Buffington M, van Noort S (2012) Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae). ZooKeys 202: 1–154. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.202.2136
- ↑ van Noort S (2004–2015) WaspWeb – a bioinformatics resource for Afrotropical Hymenoptera. http://www.waspweb.org.za
