Aprostoporoides

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Aprostoporoides
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eulophidae
Subfamily: Tetrastichinae
Genus: Aprostoporoides
Narendran, 2004
Type species
Aprostoporoides curiosus
Narendran, 2004
Species

Aprostoporoides is a small Indomalayan genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae which was described in 2004 with two newly described species from Kerala. [1]

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References

  1. T. C. Narendran; Girish Kumar P.; Santhosh Shreevihar (2004). "A taxonomic study of a new genus and two new species of tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Southern India". Zoos' Print Journal. 19 (6): 1498–1500. doi: 10.11609/JoTT.ZPJ.1106.1498-500 .