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Watshamia Bouček

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

Classification

 

Watshamia gero Mitroiu, 2013 (Kenya)

 

Watshamia turneri Bouček, 1974 (Namibia, South Africa)

 

Watshamia versicolor Bouček, 1974 (Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe)

Watshamia species (South Africa)
Distribution

Afrotropical and Oriental (Watshamia malaica) regions.

Biology Parasitoids of Cecidomyiidae (Diptera). Watshamia malaica recorded from Asphondylia sp. (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on the Malay Camphor (Dryobalanops aromatica Gaertn., Dipterocarpaceae), a critically endangered species of tree; Watshamia gero is associated with unidentified cecidomyiid galls; W. versicolor was reared from unidentified galls on Rhoicissus tridentata (Vitaceae) (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 © 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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