Distribution

Australia (Shaw 1990). Accidentally introduced to South Africa (Gess 1964).

Biology

Parasitoid of beetle larvae in the genus Phoracantha (Cerambycidae) (Froggatt 1906; Gess 1964; Austin et al. 1994) which are wood borers of Eucalyptus species.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko)

References

Austin, A.D., Quicke, D.L.J. & Marsh, P.M. 1994. The hymenopterous parasitoids of eucalypt longicorn beetles, Phoracantha spp. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Australia. Bulletin of Entomological Research 84: 145-174.

Froggatt W.W. 1906. Notes on the hymenopterous genus Megalyra Westwood, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales 31: 399-407.

Gess F.W. 1964. The discovery of a parasite of the Phoracantha beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in the Western Cape. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 27: 152.

Shaw S.R. 1990. A taxonomic revision of the long-tailed wasps of the genus Megalyra Westwood (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 1005-1052.

Westwood J.O. 1832. In: Griffith E. Supplement on the Hymenoptera, pp 389-576. In: Cuvier G. Animal Kingdom, Class Insecta. Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London, 796 pp.