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Goetheana Girault

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

Goetheana Girault, 1920. Type species: Goetheana shakespearei Girault, 1920, by monotypy.
Dasyscapus Gahan, 1927. Type species: Dasyscapus parvipennis Gahan, 1927, by monotypy. Synonymized by Girault 1930.


Classification

Goetheana incerta Annecke, 1962

Goetheana kobzari Gumovsky, 2016

Goetheana shakespearei Girault, 1920

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of thrips (Thysanoptera).

References

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

Clausen, C.P. (Ed.) 1978. Introduced Parasites and Predators of Arthropod Pests and Weeds: A World Review. United StatesDepartment of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook, 545 pp.

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

Hessein, N.A. & McMurtry, J.A. 1989. Biological studies of Goetheana parvipennis (Gahan) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an imported parasitoid, in relation to the host species, Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 65: 25–33.

Murai, T., Kawai, S., Chongratanameteekul, W. & Nakasuji, F. 2000. Damage to tomato by Ceratothripoides claratris (Shumsher) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in central Thailand and a note on its parasitoid, Goetheana shakespearei Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 35: 505–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1303/aez.2000.505

Noyes, J.S. 2016. Universal Chalcidoidea Database, Natural History Museum London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index.html

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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