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Dallatorrella Cameron

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

Dallatorella Kieffer, 1911. Type species: Dallatorrella rubriventris Kieffer, 1911, by monotypy.

ClassificationLiopteridae keys

Dallatorrella albata (Weld, 1944)

 

Dallatorrella carinifrons (Cameron, 1910)

Dallatorrella maculata Liu, 2001

Dallatorrella maxima Liu, 2001

Dallatorrella pulla Liu, 2001

Dallatorrella ronquisti Liu, 2001

Dallatorrella rubriventris Kieffer, 1911

Dallatorrella sinica Liu, 2001

Distribution

Australia, Borneo, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malay, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sarawak, Singapore.

Biology

Unknown, but possibly parasitoids of wood-boring insects.

References

Liu, Z. 2009. Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Revision of the Subfamily Dallatorrellinae (Hymenoptera: Liopteridae). American Museum Novitates. 3353. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1995.tb00099.x

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 © Zhiwei Liu.


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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