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Exhibition Iziko South African Museum

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

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The South African Searsia gall wasp is the only species of Gall wasp in the world that parasitizes a gall made by a moth. The wasp is a lethal gall former: its larval cells expand into the hollow interior of the host moth gall resulting in death of the moth caterpillar. 

Photographs © Simon van Noort


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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