Oodera sp.

Werner, Jennifer & Peters, Ralph S., 2018, Taxonomic revision of the genus Oodera Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Cleonyminae), with description of ten new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 63, pp. 73-123 : 113

Oodera sp.

Note.

Five specimens could not be assigned to any of the previously or newly described species (specimens OSp01 (ZFMK), OSp02 (BMNH) and OSp03-05 (SAMC)). All do not match the characters used in the key and diagnoses for the species included herein. All are single specimens and all are found in countries from which already one or more species have been described or are described in this study. We deliberately refrain from describing these five single specimens as five additional new species, because they are apparently close to but not identical with other species (for details see below), they show overlap in distribution with other species and we have no information about the variation of the potential new species. Most species of Oodera are fairly similar, and reliable diagnostic characters are hard to find and describe, especially because most type series are small in this rarely collected group. Describing the additional five specimens as five new species would potentially cause significant confusion. We decided to list these specimens in this revision so that they can easily be located for future studies, and include all measurements in Suppl. material 1. We hope for additional material collected in the future, ideally also including ethanol preserved material for an integrative study, to formulate robust species hypotheses. Note that we describe three species from single specimens (i.e., O. felix sp. n., O. florea sp. n., and O. mkomaziensis sp. n.), but these are much more easily separated morphologically and are also geographically isolated from all other species.