Lusius Explained

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. Lusius occurs in the Oriental, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Australasian biogeographical regions.^[3]

Species

• Lusius aborensis (Morley 1914)^[4]
• Lusius anguinus (Cresson 1874)^{[4] [5]}
• Lusius apollos (Morley 1913)^[4]
• Lusius flummox Rousse & van Noort 2013
• Lusius ferrugineus Graf 2000
• Lusius gracilis Kusigemati 1986^[4]
• Lusius macilentus Tosquinet 1903^[4]
• Lusius malfoyi Saunders & Ward 2017^[6]
• Lusius tenuissimus (Heinrich 1938)^[4]

Notes and 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 . 1903 . lvii–lxxiv.
3. 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. 10.3897/zookeys.354.5968. 24294101. 14 Jan 2018. 3837403. free.
4. Various contributors. 2018. Hymenoptera Online (HOL). [Online] Available from http://hol.osu.edu/search.html?limit=50&name=Lusius. Accessed 13 January 2018
5. Sources differ on inclusion of this species, with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility assigning it to the genus Grotea, as Grotea anguina Cresson 1894
6. Thomas E. . Saunders . Darren F. . Ward . A new species of Lusius (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from New Zealand . New Zealand Entomologist . 40 . 2 . 2017 . 10.1080/00779962.2017.1357427 . 72–78. 90611651 . 2292/41733 . free .