Oberthuerella Saussure

Buffington, Matthew L. & Noort, Simon van, 2012, Revision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae), ZooKeys 202, pp. 1-154 : 4

Oberthuerella Saussure

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. 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 tooth-like process easily distinguishes Oberthuerella from Tessmannella .

Distribution.

Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Biology.

Unknown.

Included species.

Oberthuerella abscinda Quinlan, 1979: 111

Oberthuerella aureopilosa Benoit, 1955: 290

Oberthuerella breviscutellaris Benoit, 1955: 286

Oberthuerella crassicornis Benoit, 1955: 289

Oberthuerella compressa Benoit, 1955: 292. Synonymy by Quinlan (1979).

Oberthuerella cyclopia Buffington & van Noort, sp. n.

Oberthuerella eschara Buffington & van Noort, sp. n.

Oberthuerella kibalensis van Noort & Buffington, sp. n.

Oberthuerella lenticularis Saussure, 1890: plate 20; fig. 20

Oberthuerella longicaudata Benoit, 1955: 291

Oberthuerella longispinosa Benoit, 1955: 290

Oberthuerella nigra Kieffer, 1910a: 110. Holotype male previously in ZMHB, now missing (Ronquist, 1995). Not examined.

Oberthuerella nigrescens Benoit, 1955: 288

Oberthuerella pardolatus Buffington & van Noort, sp. n.

Oberthuerella sharkeyi Buffington & van Noort, sp. n.

Oberthuerella simba Buffington & van Noort, sp. n.

Oberthuerella tibialis Kieffer, 1904: 107

Oberthuerella transiens (Benoit); new combination by Ronquist (1995).

Tessmannella transiens Benoit, 1955: 283.

Oberthuerella triformis Quinlan, 1979: 115

Key to Oberthuerella species (both sexes; modified from Quinlan 1979)