Lusius

Lusius is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the tribe Phaeogenini Förster, 1869 or Alomyini Förster, 1869,[1] first described by Pierre Jules Tosquinet in 1903, published after his death.[2] The genus is similar in appearance to species in the genus Heterischnus[3]. Lusius occurs in the Oriental, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Australasian biogeographical regions.[4]

Lusius
Lusius malfoyi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Ichneumoninae
Tribe: Phaeogenini
Genus: Lusius
Tosquinet 1903

Species

References

  1. These terms are considered synonyms in Wikispecies with Alomyini being the valid term, however Phaeogenini is used in recent publications.
  2. "The President's Address". The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 50: lvii–lxxiv. 1903.
  3. Saunders, Thomas E.; Ward, Darren F. (2017). "A new species of Lusius (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from New Zealand". New Zealand Entomologist. 40 (2): 72–78. doi:10.1080/00779962.2017.1357427. S2CID 90611651.
  4. Rousse, Pascal; van Noort, Simon; Diller, E. (2013). "Revision of the Afrotropical Phaeogenini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species". ZooKeys (354): 1–85. doi:10.3897/zookeys.354.5968. PMC 3837403. PMID 24294101. Retrieved 14 Jan 2018.
  5. Various contributors. 2018. Hymenoptera Online (HOL). [Online] Available from http://hol.osu.edu/search.html?limit=50&name=Lusius. Accessed 13 January 2018
  6. "Lusius" at the Encyclopedia of Life
  7. Sources differ on inclusion of this species, with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility assigning it to the genus Grotea, as Grotea anguina Cresson 1894


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