(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily Chalcidoidea; Family Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Ormocerinae)
Trichilogaster Mayr 1905. Type species: Trichilogaster maideni (Froggatt 1892).
Afrotropical: Saudi Arabia and South Africa (introduced). Australasian: Australia
Phytophagous gall former on Acacia species (Mimosoidea)
Mayr, G. 1905. Hymenopterologische miszellen. IV. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 1905: 529-575.
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