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Oxysychus genualis (Walker)

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

Cheiropachys genualis Walker, 1862. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: South Africa.

 

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Parasitoid of Phoracantha semipunctata (Cerambycidae) accidentally introduced to South Africa from Australia.

References

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.

Rasplus, J.-Y. 1989. Nouvelles espèces afrotropicales de Pteromalidae et notes sur leur biologie (Hymenoptera). Revue Française d'Entomologie (nouvelle série) 11: 69-78.

Walker, F. 1862. Notes on Chalcidites, and characters of undescribed species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3)1: 345–397.

Credits

Photographs and illustrations © Gerhard Prinsloo (ARC).

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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