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Pteromalidae_Vida_van_der_Walt

Pteromalinae Dalman 1820

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

Classification

 

Ficicola Heydon, 1992

 

Hansonita Bouček, 1993

Oxysychus Delluchi, 1956

 

Pycnetron Gahan, 1925

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology  

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.

Credits

Images © Vida van der Walt or Gerhard Prinsloo (ARC). 

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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