Eucharissa speciosa Westwood

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eucharitidae; Subfamily: Eucharitinae; Genus: Eucharissa)

Eucharissa speciosa Westwood, 1868: 37. Lectotype type No. 654.5 in Hope Entomological Collections, University Museum, Oxford (UMOX). Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

Westwood, 1874: 143 (redescription and illustration); Dalla Torre, 1898: 359 (catalog).

Two specimens in Berlin (ZMBH):

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

References

Heraty, J.M. 2002. A revision of the genera of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the World. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 68: 1-359.

Westwood, J.O. 1868. Descriptions of new genera and species of Chalcididae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1868:xxxvii

Credits

Photographs © John Heraty (UCR).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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