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Goetheana incerta Annecke

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

Goetheana incerta Annecke, 1962. Holotype in National Collection of Insects, Pretoria (SANC). Type locality: Skukuza, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.


Classification

Distribution

Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda.

Biology

Parasitoid of the citrus thrips (Scirtothrips aurantii Faure) in Swaziland and South Africa (Grout & Stephen 1995).

References

Annecke, D.P. 1962. The genus Goetheana Girault in South Africa (Eulophidae-Hymenoptera). South African Journal of Agricultural Science 5: 273–279.

Girault, A.A. 1920. New genera and species of Australian Mymaridae (Hymenoptera). Insecutor Inscitić Menstruus 8: 96–100.

Grout, T.G. & Stephen, P.R. 1995. Goetheana incerta parasitizing citrus thrips in southern Africa. Citrus Journal 5: 30–32.

Gumovsky, A. 2016. Review of Afrotropical species of Goetheana Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4147 (5): 551–563. http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4147.5.3

Credits

Photographs © Alex Gumovsky (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev).


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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