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Pluto (wasp)

Pluto is a genus of aphid wasps in the family Psenidae. There are at least 50 described species in Pluto.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Psenidae
Genus: Pluto
Pate, 1937
Synonyms1
  • Psenia Malloch, 1933

Pluto is a genus of aphid wasps in the family Psenidae.2 There are at least 50 described species in Pluto.134

Species

These 58 species belong to the genus Pluto:

  • Pluto abbreviatus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto aerofacies (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto albifacies (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto alphitopus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto angulicornis (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto annulipes (Cameron, 1891) i c g
  • Pluto araguensis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto arenivagus Krombein, 1950 i c g
  • Pluto argentifrons (Cresson, 1865) i c g
  • Pluto atricornis (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto basifuscus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto biformis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto brevipetiolatus (Rohwer, 1910) i c g
  • Pluto castaneipes van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto clavicornis (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto colonensis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto denticollis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto depressus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto duckei van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto emarginatus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto evansi van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto facialis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto fritzi van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto incarinatus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto joergenseni (Brèthes, 1913) i c g
  • Pluto jugularis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto littoralis (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto longiventris (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto marthae van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto medius (F. Smith, 1856) i c g
  • Pluto menkei van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto metanus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto minutus (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto nitens van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto obscurus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto occipitalis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto pallidistigma (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto punctatellus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto pygmaeus (Brèthes, 1913) i c g
  • Pluto rotundus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto rufanalis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto rufibasis (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto rugulosus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto sayi (Rohwer, 1910) i c g
  • Pluto scytinus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto simplicicollis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto smithii (W. Fox, 1897) i c g
  • Pluto spangleri van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto spinicollis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto stenopygidialis van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto stramineipes van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto strigellus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto suffusus (W. Fox, 1898) i c g
  • Pluto texanus (Malloch, 1933) i c g
  • Pluto tibialis (Cresson, 1873) i c g
  • Pluto townsendi (Cockerell, 1911) i c g
  • Pluto trilobatus van Lith, 1979 i c g
  • Pluto zonatus van Lith, 1979 i c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,3 c = Catalogue of Life,4 g = GBIF,1

References

References

  1. "Pluto". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  2. Sann, Manuela; Niehuis, Oliver; Peters, Ralph S.; Mayer, Christoph; Kozlov, Alexey; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Bank, Sarah; Meusemann, Karen; Misof, Bernhard; Bleidorn, Christoph; Ohl, Michael (2018). "Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18 (71). doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8. PMC 5960199.
  3. "Pluto". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  4. "Pluto". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
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