Leptofoenus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chalcidoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Chalcidoidea

Familia: Pteromalidae
Subfamilia: Leptofoeninae
Genus: Leptofoenus
Species (6): L. howardi – L. peleciniformis – L. rufus – L. stephanoides – L. westwoodi – †L. pittfieldae

[list of species after Engel (2009: 59, table 1)]

Leptofoenus Smith, 1862

Leptofoenus Smith, 1862: 43; LaSalle & Stage, 1985: 287–288
Pelecinella Westwood, 1868: xxxv-xxxvi; Ashmead, 1895: 232 [syn. Brues (1924)]

Leptofoenus Smith: Leptofoenus peleciniformis Smith, 1862, by monotypy
Pelecinella Westwood: Pelecinella phantasma Westwood, 1868 [=Leptofoenus peleciniformis], by monotypy

Ashmead, W.H. 1895: On the genus Pelecinella, Westwood, and its position among the Chalcididae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 3: 230–233. PDF
Brues, C.T. 1924: The identity of Leptofoenus F. Smith and Pelecinella Westwood (Hymenoptera). Psyche, 31: 302–304. PDF
Engel, M.S. 2009: The first fossil leptofoenine wasp (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae): a new species of Leptofoenus in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic. ZooKeys, 13: 57–66. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.13.159
LaSalle, J.; Stage, G.I. 1985: The chalcidoid genus Leptofoenus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Systematic entomology, 10: 285–298. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1985.tb00138.x