Distribution
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Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Namibia, Somalia, South
Africa, Sudan.
Also Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions. |
Biology
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Hosts: Phoracantha
semipunctata (Cerambycidae). |
References
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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. |
Credits
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Photographs and map
illustration © Simon
van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Illustrations © Gerhard Prinsloo (ARC). |
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