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Lusius

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Lusius
Lusius malfoyi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily: Ichneumoninae
Tribe: Phaeogenini
Genus: Lusius
Tosquinet 1903

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[3]. Lusius occurs in the Oriental, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Australasian biogeographical regions.[4]

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  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: lvii–lxxiv. 1903.
  3. ^ a b c Saunders, Thomas E.; Ward, Darren F. (2017). "A new species of Lusius (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from New Zealand". New Zealand Entomologist. 40 (2): 72–78. doi:10.1080/00779962.2017.1357427. hdl:2292/41733. S2CID 90611651.
  4. ^ a b 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.354.5968. PMC 3837403. PMID 24294101. Retrieved 14 Jan 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Various contributors. 2018. Hymenoptera Online (HOL). [Online] Available from http://hol.osu.edu/search.html?limit=50&name=Lusius. Accessed 13 January 2018
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Lusius" at the Encyclopedia of Life
  7. ^ Sources differ on inclusion of this species, with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility assigning it to the genus Grotea, as Grotea anguina Cresson 1894