Clystopsenella australiana Lepeco & Melo, 2021

Lepeco, Anderson & Melo, Gabriel A. R., 2022, Synopsis of the wasp genus Clystopsenella Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae), Zootaxa 5134 (1), pp. 125-134 : 127

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5134.1.6
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scientific name	Clystopsenella australiana Lepeco & Melo
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Clystopsenella australiana Lepeco & Melo

Clystopsenella australiana Lepeco & Melo, 2021: 456 . Holotype female, Australia: Queensland, Bribie Island (ANIC, examined).

This is the single species of the genus found outside the Neotropical region. Together with Ycaploca evansi Nagy, 1975 , they are the only species of Scolebythidae recorded in Australia. C. australiana is known only from the holotype specimen, which was collected over one hundred years ago.

References

Lepeco, A. & Melo G. A. R. (2021) Clystopsenella australiana sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae): first species of the genus found outside the Neotropical region. Austral Entomology, 60 (3), 455 - 460. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / aen. 12551

Nagy, C. G. (1975) A new genus of Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera) from South Africa and Australia. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 38 (1), 75 - 78.