BuffingtonMatthew L.van NoortSimonRevision of the Afrotropical Oberthuerellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae)Zookeys15620122012202115410.3897/zookeys.202.2136 Oberthuerella http://www.waspweb.org/Cynipoidea/Liopteridae/Oberthuerellinae/Oberthuerella/index.htm http://species-id.net/wiki/Oberthuerella SaussureOberthuerella 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 <italic><tp:taxon-name>Oberthuerella</tp:taxon-name></italic> species (both sexes; modified from <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B19">Quinlan 1979</xref>)QuinlanJ (1979) A revisionary classification of the Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera) of the Ethiopean zoologeographical region.Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 39: 85-133.RonquistF (1995) Phylogeny and classification of the Liopteridae, an archaic group of cynipoid wasps (Hymenoptera).Entomologica Scandinavica Supplement46: 1-74.