Pantolytomyia flocculosa

Pantolytomyia flocculosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Diapriidae
Genus: Pantolytomyia
Species:
P. flocculosa
Binomial name
Pantolytomyia flocculosa
Naumann, 1988

Pantolytomyia flocculosa is a species of diapriid wasp, and was first described in 1988 by the Australian entomologist, Ian D. Naumann.[1][2] The species epithet, flocculosa (Latin floccus, `a tuft of wool') "refers to the matted tuft of setae on the frons".[2]

This wasp is endemic to New Zealand,[3] and like all Diapriidae is parasitic.[3]

Type specimens were collected from moss, litter, and lichens, by diurnal or nocturnal sweeping of ferns, moss, and ground-cover,and by light trapping; in broadleaf forests (Agathis forest, Nothofagus forests, at altitudes of between 20 m and 1400 m.[2]

References

  1. ^ "IRMNG - Pantolytomyia flocculosa Naumann, 1988". www.irmng.org. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Ian D. Naumann (30 December 1988). "Ambositrinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Diapriidae)". Fauna of New Zealand. 15. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: 23–25. doi:10.7931/J2/FNZ.15. ISSN 0111-5383. OCLC 436970413. Wikidata Q45081568.
  3. ^ a b "NZOR: Details - Pantolytomyia flocculosa Naumann, 1988". NZOR. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
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