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Psyllechthrus Ghesquière

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

Psyllechthrus Ghesquière, 1958. Type:

Psyllechthrus oophagus Ghesquière, 1958 (Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) 

Distribution

Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Psyllechthrus oophagus is an egg parasitoid, developing in the eggs of the Hilda hopper Nototettigometra patruelis on the fruiting stem of a Cape fig, Ficus sur. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192741071.

Reference

 

Credits

Photographs © Alan Manson (Pietermaritzburg).


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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