Liomutilla (lat.) - a genus of German wasps from the subfamily Myrmillinae .
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| Liomutilla André , 1907 |
Distribution
North Africa [1] [2] .
Description
The body is smooth, shiny. Males have a front wing with 2 radio-medial cells. The first segment of the flagellum flagellum (flagellomer 1) is almost equal to the second (longer in females). Males have 13-segmented antennae, females - 12-segmented. A female wasp sneaks into a strange nest and lays eggs on the host larvae, which feed their own larvae [1] [3] .
Systematics
Belongs to the subfamily Myrmillinae Bischoff, 1920 [1] .
- Liomutilla canariensis André, 1907 - Canary Islands
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Lelei A.S. 2002
- ↑ Genus on Fauna Europaea
- ↑ Giuseppe Fabrizio TURRISI, Maurizio Matteini PALMERINI & Denis J. BROTHERS. 2015. Systematic revision and phylogeny of the genera Blakeius Ashmead, 1903 and Liomutilla André, 1907, with description of two new genera (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Myrmillinae). - Zootaxa 4010 (1): 001-078. ISBN 978-1-77557-782-9
Literature
- Lelei A.S. (1985). German wasps (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) fauna of the USSR and neighboring countries. - L .: Science. 1985 .-- 268 p.
- Lelei A.S. (2002). Catalog of German wasps (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of the Palearctic region. - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2002 .-- 171 p.