Pycnetron pix Prinsloo, 2005

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae; Tribe: Pteromalini; Genus: Pycnetron)

Pycnetron pix Prinsloo, 2005. Holotype in Pretoria (SANC). Type locality: SOUTH AFRICA, Mpumalanga Province: Tweefontein Plantation nr. Sabie, 25°06’S 30°27’E, 14.ix.2003, S. Gebeyehu, ex pupae of Pissodes nemorensis in logs of Pinus elliottii..




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


Line drawings © Gerhard Prinsloo (ARC).

Distribution	South Africa.
Biology	Parasitoid of weevils: Pissodes nemorensis (Curculionidae); and Antliarhinus peglerae (Brentidae)
References	Bouček, Z. 1976. African Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera): new taxa, synonymies and combinations. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 39: 9–31. Prinsloo, G.L. 2005. Description of Pycnetron pix sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), an indigenous parasitoid of the exotic pine weevil Pissodes nemorensis (Curculionidae) in South Africa, and comments on the identity of Pycnetron longicauda (Risbec). African Entomology 13: 341-346.
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). Line drawings © Gerhard Prinsloo (ARC).
	Next genus: Oricoruna

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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