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Oxysychus Delluchi

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

Oxysychus Delluchi, 1956. Type species: Dinarmus silvestrii Masi 1922.

 

 

Oxysychus albiziarum Rasplus,1989

 

Oxysychus chappuisi (Risbec,1955)

Oxysychus genualis (Walker,1862)

 

Oxysychus maindroni (Risbec,1955)

  Oxysychus ranomafanae (Risbec,1952)

 

Oxysychus sphenopterae (Ferrière,1931)

Distribution

Ethiopa, India (Karnataka, Kerala), Namibia, South Africa, Sri Lanka.

Biology

Hosts: Phoracantha semipunctata (Cerambycidae).

Reference

Bouček, Z. 1976. African Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera): new taxa, synonymies and combinations. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 39: 9–31.

Prinsloo, G.L. 2004. Oxysychus genualis (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae): first record of an indigenous parasitoid of the introduced eucalyptus borer, Phoracantha semipunctata

(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), in South Africa. African Entomology 12: 271-274.

Credits

Images © Gerhard Prinsloo (ARC).
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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