Biology |
Originally reported as
a seed gall inducer in capsules of Eucalyptus species (Kim
& La Salle, 2008),
usually associated with two other genera of seed galling tetrastichines:
Quadrastichodella and Moona;
it has now been established to more likely be a parasitoid within the
Quadrastichodella
nova gall community on
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, also comprising
the parasitoids
Megastigmus zebrinus
and a
Aprostocetus species (Klein et al,
2015). |
References
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Kim, I.-K., & LaSalle, J. 2008. A new genus and species of
Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) inducing galls in seed capsules of
Eucalyptus. Zootaxa 1745: 63–68.
Klein H, Hoffmann
JH, Neser S & Dittrich-Schroder G. 2015. Evidence that Quadrastichodella
nova (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) is the only gall inducer among four
hymenopteran species associated with seed capsules of Eucalyptus
camaldulensis (Myrtaceae) in South Africa. African Entomology 23:
207–223. doi: 10.4001/003.023.0117
Mansfield S. 2016.
New communities on eucalypts grown outside Australia. Frontiers in Plant
Science. 7: 1812. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01812. |