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Liostenogaster
Sign in to saveLiostenogaster is a genus of hover wasps from the subfamily Stenogastrinae of the family Vespidae which has a distribution centred on south-east Asia. It was named by the Dutch entomologist Jacobus van der Vecht from material collected by Japanese scientists on an expedition to Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia which took place in 1966.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Vespidae
- Collections
- USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Malaysia
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Liostenogaster is a genus of hover wasps from the subfamily Stenogastrinae of the family Vespidae which has a distribution centred on south-east Asia. It was named by the Dutch entomologist Jacobus van der Vecht from material collected by Japanese scientists on an expedition to Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia which took place in 1966.
==Species== The following species are currently assigned to Liostenogaster: Liostenogaster abstrusa Turillazzi 1999 Liostenogaster bimaculata Selis, 2018 Liostenogaster campanulae Turillazzi 1999 Liostenogaster filicis Turillazzi 1999 Liostenogaster flaviplagiata (Cameron, 1902) Liostenogaster flavolineata (Cameron, 1902) Liostenogaster maculiceps Selis, 2018 Liostenogaster nitidipennis (de Saussure, 1853) Liostenogaster pardii Turillazzi & Carfi 1996 Liostenogaster picta (Smith, 1860) Liostenogaster topographica Turillazzi 1999 Liostenogaster tutua Turillazzi 1999 Liostenogaster variapicta (Rohwer, 1919) Liostenogaster vechti Turillazzi 1999
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liostenogaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.