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Quadrastichus mendeli Kim & La Salle

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

Quadrastichus mendeli Kim and La Salle, 2008. Holotype in Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra (ANIC). Type locality: Australia, Queensland, Mareeba.

 

Distribution

Introduced to: Afrotropical region: South Africa (accidentally); Palaearctic region: Israel; Oriental region (Thailand). Australian indigenous species.

Biology

Parasitoid of Leptocybe invasa Lineage A and Megastigmus zebrinus Grissell, 2006 (Gevers et al., 2020).

References

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.

Gevers, C.R., Dittrich-Schröder, G., Slippers, B. and Hurley, B.P. 2020. Interactions between hymenopteran species associated with gall-forming wasps: the Leptocybe invasa community as a case study. Agricultural and Forest Entomology https://doi.org/10.1111/afe.12413

Kim, I.-K., Mendel, Z., Protasov, A., Blumberg, D. & La Salle, J. 2008. Taxonomy, biology and efficacy of two Australian parasitoids of the eucalyptus gall wasp, Leptocybe invasa Fisher & La Salle (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae). Zootaxa 1910: 1-20.

Huang, Z., Li, J., Lu,W. & Yang, Z. 2018. Parasitoids of the Eucalyptus gall wasp Leptocybe spp.: a global review. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25: 29983–29995.

Credits

Photographs © Il-Kwon Kim and John La Salle (CSIRO Entomology).

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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