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Closterocerus chamaeleon (Girault)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eulophidae; Subfamily: Entedoninae; Genus: Closterocerus)

Neochrysocharell chamaeleon Girault, 1922. Lectotype in Brisbane, Queensland (QMB). Type locality: Australia.

Classification

Distribution

South Africa. Also Australasian, Nearctic and Palaeartic regions.

Biology

Parasitoid of the invasive Eucalyptus Gall Wasp Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead).

References

Burks RA, Mottern JL, Pownall NG, Waterworth R, Paine TD. 2015. First record of Closterocerus chamaeleon, parasitoid of the Eucalyptus Gall Wasp Ophelimus maskelli (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae), in the New World. ZooKeys 504: 149–152. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.504.9728

Bush, S.J., Slippers, B., Neser, S., Harney, M., Dittrich-Schröder, G., Hurley, B.P., 2016.
Six recently recorded Australian insects associated with eucalyptus in South Africa. African Entomology 24, 539–544.

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Credits

Photographs © Roger Burks (UCR).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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