Loboscelidiinae is a small subfamily of cuckoo wasps in the family Chrysididae. There are 2 genera and more than 40 described species in Loboscelidiinae, and they are parasitoids of walking stick eggs.[1][2][3]
| Loboscelidiinae | |
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| Loboscelidia, Queensland, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Chrysididae |
| Subfamily: | Loboscelidiinae Ashmead, 1903 |
Genera
edit- Loboscelidia Westwood, 1874
- Rhadinoscelidia Kimsey, 1988
References
edit- ^ Kimsey, Lynn S. (2018). "Morphology and review of the odd genus Rhadinoscelidia Kimsey, 1988 (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae, Loboscelidiinae)". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 62: 45–54. doi:10.3897/jhr.62.20888.
- ^ Baker, Ed (2016). "An online taxonomic database of the stick insect (Phasmida) egg-parasitising subfamilies Amiseginae and Loboscelidiinae (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)". Biodiversity Data Journal. 4 (4). Pensoft: e7441. doi:10.3897/BDJ.4.e7441. PMC 4759390. PMID 26929715.
- ^ Baker, Ed (2019). "subfamily Loboscelidiinae Ashmead, 1903". Chrysididae species file online, Version 5.0. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
Further reading
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