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Araucania (wasp)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Sapygidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hymenoptera

Subfamily
  
Sapyginae

Araucania is a tiny genus of sapygid wasps from South America, containing a single known species. This species was originally described under the genus name Laura (by Reed in 1930) but this name was already in use for a crustacean named in 1883. Ironically, after Pate described this wasp genus, four other authors named genera Araucania only to be forced to replace those names, in turn.[1]

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Araucania (wasp) Wikipedia