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Goetheana shakespearei Annecke

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eulophidae; Subfamily: Entedoninae: Genus: Goetheana)

Goetheana shakespearei Girault, 1920. Holotype in . Type locality:

Dasyscapus parvipennis Gahan, 1927: 27; synonymy by Bouček 1988.
Dasyscapus thripsivorous Narayanan, Subba Rao & Ramachandra Rao, 1960. Synonymy by Bouček 1988.


Classification

 

Distribution

Worldwide. Afrotropical region: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Namibia, Tanzania, Senegal, South Africa.

Biology

Parasitoid of thrips species (Thripidae) (Noyes, 2016), including the agricultural pests Selenothrips rubrocinctus (Giard) (Clausen, 1978), Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché) (Hessein & McMurtry, 1989), and Ceratothripoides claratris (Shumsher) (Murai et al., 2000).

References

Annecke, D.P. 1962. The genus Goetheana Girault in South Africa (Eulophidae-Hymenoptera). South African Journal of Agricultural Science 5: 273–279.

Clausen, C.P. (Ed.) 1978. Introduced Parasites and Predators of Arthropod Pests and Weeds: A World Review. United StatesDepartment of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook, 545 pp.

Girault, A.A. 1920. New genera and species of Australian Mymaridae (Hymenoptera). Insecutor Inscitiæ Menstruus 8: 96–100.

Grout, T.G. & Stephen, P.R. 1995. Goetheana incerta parasitizing citrus thrips in southern Africa. Citrus Journal 5: 30–32.

Gumovsky, A. 2016. Review of Afrotropical species of Goetheana Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4147 (5): 551–563. http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4147.5.3

Hessein, N.A. & McMurtry, J.A. 1989. Biological studies of Goetheana parvipennis (Gahan) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an imported parasitoid, in relation to the host species, Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (Bouché) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 65: 25–33.

Murai, T., Kawai, S., Chongratanameteekul, W. & Nakasuji, F. 2000. Damage to tomato by Ceratothripoides claratris (Shumsher) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in central Thailand and a note on its parasitoid, Goetheana shakespearei Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 35: 505–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1303/aez.2000.505

Noyes, J.S. 2016. Universal Chalcidoidea Database, Natural History Museum London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index.html

Credits

Photographs © Alex Gumovsky (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev).


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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