Liopteridae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Suborder: | Apocrita |
Infraorder: | Proctotrupomorpha |
Superfamily: | Cynipoidea |
Family: | Liopteridae Ashmead, 1895 |
Subfamilies | |
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Liopteridae is a family of wood-boring parasitoid wasps. They occur worldwide with concentrations in the African Tropics.[1] These insects have a petiolate abdomen. There are 10 genera and more than 140 species known.[1]