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Quadrastichodella Girault

Eucalyptus Seed Gall Wasps

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

Quadrastichodella Girault 1913

 

Quadrastichodella boudiennyi Girault, 1937

Quadrastichodella nova Girault, 1922

Distribution

South Africa.

Also Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, and Palaeractic regions.

Biology

Seed gall inducer on Eucalyptus species. Oviposition is into young flower buds transforming them into seed-like galls in the seed capsules (Valentine 1970).

References

Ikeda, E. 1999. A revision of the world species of Quadrastichodella Girault, with descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae). Insecta Matsumurana 55: 13-35.

Klein H, Hoffmann JH, Neser S & Dittrich-Schroder G. 2015. Evidence that Quadrastichodella nova (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is the only gall inducer among four hymenopteran species associated with seed capsules of Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Myrtaceae) in South Africa. African Entomology 23: 207–223. doi: 10.4001/003.023.0117
La Salle, J. 1994. North American genera of Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Journal of Natural History 28: 109-236.
Majer, J.D., Recher, H.F., Wellington A.B., Woinarski, J.C.Z. and Yen, A.L. 1997. Invertebrates of eucalypt formations. In: Eucalypt Ecology. Individuals to Ecosystems (eds J.E. Williams and J.C.Z. Woinarski) pp. 278-302. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Mansfield S. 2016. New communities on eucalypts grown outside Australia. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7: 1812. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01812.

Valentine, E.W. 1970. A list of phytophagous Hymenoptera in New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 4: 52-62.

Credits

Photographs © Oğuzhan & Miktad Doğanlar (Ahi Evran University).


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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