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Selitrichodes Girault

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

Selitrichodes Girault, 1913

Selitrichodes kryceri Kim & La Salle, 2012

Selitrichodes neseri Kelly & La Salle, 2012

Distribution Australia. Species introduced elsewhere e.g. California USA (La Salle et al. 2009) and South Africa (Kelly et al. 2012; Gevers et al. 2020).

Twig, petiole and leaf lamina galls as found at type locality on young plant of Eucalyptus sp. (Photo © Stefan Neser, ARC).

Selitrichodes neseri eggs on a pupa of Leptocybe invasa (more than one egg probably a cage artefact) (Photo © Stefan Neser, ARC).

Biology Parasitoid of the eucalyptus gall wasp Leptocybe invasa (Tetrastichinae, Eulophidae).

References

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

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.

Kelly, J., La Salle, J., Harney, M., Dittrich-Schröder,& Hurley, B. 2012. Selitrichodes neseri n. sp., a new parasitoid of the eucalyptus gall wasp Leptocybe invasa Fisher & La Salle (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae). Zootaxa 3333: 50-57.

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.

La Salle, J., Arakelian, G., Garrison, R.W. & Gates, M.W. 2009. A new species of invasive gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae) on blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) in California. Zootaxa 2121, 35–43.

Mendel, Z., Protasov, A., Fisher, N. & La Salle, J. 2004. The taxonomy and natural history of Leptocybe invasa (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) gen & sp. nov., an invasive gall inducer on Eucalyptus. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 101–113.

Credits

Photographs © Janine Kelly (ARC) or © Stefan Neser (ARC).


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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