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Pycnetron pix Prinsloo, 2005

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

Pycnetron pix Prinsloo, 2005

 

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Parasitoids of weevils: Pissodes nemorensis (Curculionidae); and Antliarhinus peglerae (Brentidae)

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. 2005. Description of Pycnetron pix sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), an indigenous parasitoid of the exotic pine weevil Pissodes nemorensis (Curculionidae) in South Africa, and comments on the identity of Pycnetron longicauda (Risbec). African Entomology 13: 341-346.

Credits

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

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