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Metapelma Westwood

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Agriculture Canada ,, Canada

Description

Metapelma Westwood

Metapelma Westwood, 1835: 69. Type species: M. spectabile Westwood. By monotypy.

Halidea Förster, 1856: 31. Type species: H. nobilis Förster. Subsequent designation by Bouček (1988b: 547) (see Gibson 1989: 82); synonymy by Ashmead (1896: 5).

Halidayella Dalla Torre, 1897: 281. Unjustified emendation of Halidea Förster.

Notes

Published as part of Gibson, Gary, 2009, Description of three new genera and four new species of Neanastatinae (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae) from Baltic amber, with discussion of their relationships to extant taxa, pp. 175-214 in ZooKeys 20 (20) on page 187, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.20.161, http://zenodo.org/record/576512

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Westwood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Eupelmidae
Genus
Metapelma
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Westwood, JO (1835) Characters of new genera and species of hymenopterous insects. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3: 51 - 54, 68 - 72.
  • Forster, A (1856) Hymenopterologische Studien. II. Heft. Chalcidiae und Proctotrupii. Aachen, 152 pp.
  • Boucek, Z (1988 b) Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A Biosystematic Revision of Genera of Fourteen Families, with a Reclassification of Species. CAB International Institute of Entomology, The Cambrian News Ltd., Aberystwyth, 832 pp.
  • Gibson, GAP (1989) Phylogeny and classification of Eupelmidae, with revision of the world genera of Calosotinae and Metapelmatinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 149: 1 - 121.
  • Ashmead, WH (1896) On the genera of Eupelminae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 4 - 20.
  • Dalla Torre, KW von (1897) Zur Nomenclatur der Chalcididen-Genera. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 16: 83 - 88.