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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.202.2136" ID-GBIF-Dataset="2f6b7408-685c-4ad6-aac4-7e42b84abbc7" ID-PMC="PMC3381702" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-202-1" ID-PubMed="22773909" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2012" ModsDocID="1313-2970-202-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 202" ModsDocTitle="Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae)" checkinTime="1451248949478" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Buffington, Matthew L. &amp; Noort, Simon van" docDate="2012" docId="8D0D680FAF1FFF0CE8A7AE6DD2CEEC83" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 202: 1-154" docOrigin="ZooKeys 202" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.202.2136" docTitle="Xenocynips Kieffer" docType="treatment" docVersion="3" lastPageNumber="110" masterDocId="FFA0FFA1FFCFFF87602FB655FF993C24" masterDocTitle="Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae)" masterLastPageNumber="154" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="109" updateTime="1668154007943" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Buffington, Matthew L.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Noort, Simon van</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://www.waspweb.org/Cynipoidea/Liopteridae/Oberthuerellinae/Xenocynips/index.htm" authority="Kieffer" class="Hexapoda" family="Liopteridae" genus="Xenocynips" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xenocynips" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="108" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Xenocynips Kieffer</taxonomicName>
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Kieffer, 1910b:340.Type species:
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Kiefferby monotypy.
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<paragraph pageId="108" pageNumber="109">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Metasomal terga 3-5 fused, with inter tergal sutures partially visible; lower mesopleuron horizontally striate.
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is most easily confused with
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; the fusion of terga in
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is a very reliable and clearly visible character. Additionally, most species of
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possess a dorsoventrally striate lateral aspect of the scutellum, posterior to the auricula; this is useful for specimens in which the metasoma is missing.
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<paragraph pageId="108" pageNumber="109">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="108" pageNumber="109">Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="108" pageNumber="109">Biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="108" pageNumber="109">Unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="108" pageNumber="109">Comments.</paragraph>
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This little known genus was treated by both
<bibRefCitation author="Quinlan, J" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History" pageId="121" pageNumber="122" pagination="85 - 133" title="A revisionary classification of the Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) of the Ethiopean zoologeographical region." volume="39" year="1979">Quinlan (1979)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation author="Ronquist, F" journalOrPublisher="Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement" pageId="121" pageNumber="122" pagination="1 - 74" title="Phylogeny and classification of the Liopteridae, an archaic group of cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera)." volume="46" year="1995">Ronquist (1995)</bibRefCitation>
, the latter providing a proper redescription of the genus as well as apomorphies supporting its monophyly (included here as diagnostic characters).
<bibRefCitation author="Quinlan, J" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History" pageId="121" pageNumber="122" pagination="85 - 133" title="A revisionary classification of the Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) of the Ethiopean zoologeographical region." volume="39" year="1979">Quinlan (1979)</bibRefCitation>
reported the holotype of
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as missing, but
<bibRefCitation author="Ronquist, F" journalOrPublisher="Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement" pageId="121" pageNumber="122" pagination="1 - 74" title="Phylogeny and classification of the Liopteridae, an archaic group of cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera)." volume="46" year="1995">Ronquist (1995)</bibRefCitation>
reported the type in DEIC, and it is figured here (Fig. 56). This species, in addition to the two described here as new, bring the total number of
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species to three.
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species.
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Buffington &amp; van Noort, sp. n.
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Buffington &amp; van Noort, sp. n.
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Kieffer, 1910b: 340
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Key to species of
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(both sexes)
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<paragraph pageId="109" pageNumber="110">(Available online at http://www.waspweb.org/Cynipoidea/Keys/index.htm)</paragraph>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="109" pageNumber="110" rowspan="1">
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r
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