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Psyllaephagus Ashmead

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

Psyllaephagus Ashmead, 1900. Type species: Encyrtus pachypsyllae Howard, 1885

 

Psyllaephagus africanus Prinsloo, 1985 

Psyllaephagus albicrus Prinsloo, 1981     

Psyllaephagus arytainae Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus bicolor Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus blastopsyllae Tamesse, Soufo, Tchanatame, Dzokou, Gumovsky & Coninck, 2014

Psyllaephagus bliteus Riek, 1962

 

Psyllaephagus callainus Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus capeneri Prinsloo, 1981     

Psyllaephagus cellulatus Waterston, 1922

Psyllaephagus chianganus Prinsloo, 1981 

Psyllaephagus cincticrus Prinsloo, 1981     

Psyllaephagus dealbatae (Risbec, 1959) 

Psyllaephagus dispar Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus furvus Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus hibiscusae (Risbec, 1952) 

Psyllaephagus io Prinsloo, 1985 

Psyllaephagus lucaris Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus minor Prinsloo, 1985    

Psyllaephagus oleae Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus ornatus Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus pauliani (Risbec, 1952) 

Psyllaephagus perendinus Robinson, 1970

Psyllaephagus phytolymae Ferrière, 1931

Psyllaephagus pulvinatus (Waterston, 1922)

Psyllaephagus rhusae Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus secus Prinsloo, 1981    

Psyllaephagus vastus Prinsloo, 1981

Psyllaephagus viridis Prinsloo, 1981    

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of insect and arachnid eggs and larvae.

References

Bush SJ, Slippers B, Neser S, Harney M, Dittrich-Schroder G & Hurley BP. 2016. Six recently recorded Australian insects associated with Eucalyptus in South Africa. African Entomology 24: 539 –544. http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.024.0539

Daane, KM, Sime, KR, Dahlsten, DL, Andrews JW Jr., Zuparko, RL. 2005. The biology of Psyllaephagus bliteus Riek (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a parasitoid of the red gum lerp psyllid (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). Biological Control 32: 228-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2004.09.015

Credits

Photographs © S.J. Bush (University of Pretoria).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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