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Watshamia species

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily Chalcidoidea; Family; Pirenidae; Subfamily: Pireninae; Genus: Watshamia)

Watshamia species. Specimen in Iziko (SAMC).

Classification

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology Parasitoids of Cecidomyiidae (Diptera); Watshamia gero is associated with unidentified cecidomyiid galls (Mitroiu, 2013).

References

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea, a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. 832 pp.

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Mitroiu M-D. 2013.Taxonomic review of Afrotropical Watshamia Bouček(Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), with description of a new species. Entomological Science 16: 191–195. doi:10.1111/j.1479-8298.2012.00554.x

Prinsloo, G.L. 1980. An illustrated guide to the families of African Chalcidoidea. Rep. S. Afr., Dept. Agric. Fish. Sci. Bull. No. 395: 1-66.

Credits

Photographs and map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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