| Rileya | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Eurytomidae |
| Subfamily: | Rileyinae |
| Genus: | Rileya Ashmead, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| Rileya americana Girault, 1916 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Rileya is a genus of parasitoid hymenopteran named and described in 1888. It belongs to the Eurytomidae. [2] There are 27 species currently assigned to the genus.
The genus was named in 1888 by William Harris Ashmead as belonging to the Eurytominae [3] and during the same year, the same genus was named Rileya by Howard (albeit Howard incorrectly described Rileya as part of the Chalcididae), [1] although Ashmead (1888) takes priority since they were the first to describe the genus. [3] In 1902, Friedrich von Huene named the phytosaur Rileya , without knowing that the name was already preoccupied. In 1961, Oskar Kuhn renamed it from Rileya to Rileyasuchus, realising that the name used for the phytosaur was preoccupied. [4]
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