(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eucharitidae; Subfamily: Eucharitinae)
Eucharissa Westwood, 1868: 36. Type species: Eucharissa speciosa Westwood (designated by Ashmead, 1904).
Eucharissa cuprifrons Westwood, 1874
Eucharissa erugata Heraty, 2002
Eucharissa natalica Westwood, 1868
Eucharissa speciosa Westwood, 1868
Eucharissa stigmatica Westwood, 1874
South Africa.
Host: unknown.
Heraty, J.M. 2002. A revision of the genera of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the World. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 68: 1-359.1.
Heraty JM, Mbanyana, N & van Noort S. 2020. A new species of Eucharissa (Eucharitidae) from South Africa, with an evaluation of the importance of pupae for assessing relationships in these ant parasitoids. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 79: 43–55. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.79.56042
Westwood, J.O. 1868. Descriptions of new genera and species of Chalcididae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1868:xxxvii
Photographs © John Heraty (UCR).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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