Preseucoela

Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta 
Ordo : Hymenoptera 
Superfamilia : Cynipoidea 
Familia : Figitidae 
Subfamilia : Eucoilinae 
Genus : Preseucoela 
Buffington, 2004

   

Preseucoela est genus vesparum parasitoidearum superfamiliae Cynipoideorum. Nomen generis ex Elvis Presley, cantore Americano, appellatur; quod primum eius cognominis dimidium et eucoela, suffixum in generibus cognatis adhibitum, miscet. Species huius generis parasiti dipterorum familiae Agromyzidarum sunt.

Specimina in regionibus neotropica (Argentina, Insulis Bahamensibus, Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Aequatoria, Salvator, Guatemala, Honduria, Mexico, Panama, Venetiola, Indis Occidentalibus) et nearctica (Arizona, Novo Mexico) inveniuntur.

Typus generis est Chrestosema pallidipes (Ashmead 1894), nuper Preseucoela pallidipes designata.

Species

Generi sunt tres species, omnibus a Buffington anno 2004 descriptis.

• Preseucoela heratyi Buffington, 2004
• Preseucoela imallshookupis Buffington, 2004
• Preseucoela pallidipes Buffington, 2004 (ex Ashmead 1894)

Bibliographia

• Buffington, Matthew L. 2004. "The description of Preseucoela Buffington, new genus, with notes on the status of Nearctic species of Agrostocynips Diaz (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Eucoilinae)." Zootaxa 408: 1–11. PDF.
• Valenzuela Escoboza, Fernando Alberto, Rogelio Enrique Palacios Torres, Edgardo Cortez Mondaca, Matthew L. Buffington, Jose Refugio Lomeli Flores, et Jorge Manuel Valdez Carrasco. 2019. "Species of Eucoilinae Associated with Agromyzidae in Mexico." Southwestern Entomologist 44 (3): 705–14. doi:10.3958/059.044.0315. Editio interretialis.