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Setelacher fasciatus  Bouček

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

Setelacher fasciatus Bouček, 1988. Holotype in Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra (ANIC). Type locality: Australia.

Paratype from India (NHMUK). A, B habitus dorso-lateral view; C habitus lateral view; D head and mesosoma in lateral view.

Distribution

Australia, India.

Biology

The available data suggest that S. fasciatus is a parasitoid of Psychidae in India, but no confirmed biological data are available.

References

Boucek, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. pp. 832pp. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd; Aberystwyth, Wales.

Gumovsky A, Bazhenova T & van Noort S. 2020. First record of the genus Setelacher Bouček (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Eulophinae) from the Afrotropical region, with description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 54: 611-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1764647

Credits

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


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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