Rileya is a genus of parasitoid hymenopteran named and described in 1888. It belongs to the Eurytomidae.[2] There are 27 species currently assigned to the genus.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Eurytomidae |
| Subfamily: | Rileyinae |
| Genus: | Rileya Ashmead, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| Rileya americana Girault, 1916
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History and taxonomy
editThe genus was named in 1888 by William Harris Ashmead as belonging to the Eurytominae[3] and during the same year, the same genus was named Rileya by Howard (albeit Howard incorrectly described Rileya as part of the Chalcididae),[1] although Ashmead (1888) takes priority since they were the first to describe the genus.[3] In 1902, Friedrich von Huene named the phytosaur Rileya, without knowing that the name was already preoccupied. In 1961, Oskar Kuhn renamed it from Rileya to Rileyasuchus, realising that the name used for the phytosaur was preoccupied.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Howard, L.O. (1888). The chalcid genus Rileya. Canadian Entomology 20:191-195.
- ^ Riley, C.V.; Ashmead, W.H.; Howard, L.O. (1894) Report upon the parasitic Hymenoptera of the island of St. Vincent., JOURBOOK: Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) VOLUME: 25 PAGES: 56-254
- ^ a b Ashmead, W.H. (1888). A revised generic table of the Euryrtominae, with descriptions of new species. Pt I. Entomol. Am. 4:41-43.
- ^ Kuhn, O. (1961). Die Familien der rezenten und fossilen Amphibien und Reptilien. Meisenbach:Bamberg, 79 p.
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