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Ophelimus maskelli Ashmead
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Description
57. Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead)
Material examined. 26 ♀, 4 ♂, Israel, Mazkeret Batya, ex. Eucalyptus camadulensis, 24.x. 2013 (W. Kuslitzkiy). Hosts. Plant host Eucalyptus sp. (Protasov et al. 2007a, 2007b).
Distribution. Israel (Protasov et al. 2007a, 2007b); Australia (Bouček 1988) and Palearctic (Caleca 2010).
Notes
Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Eulophidae
- Genus
- Ophelimus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Ashmead
- Species
- maskelli
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Protasov, A., Blumberg, D., Brand, D., La Salle, J. & Mendel, Z. (2007 a) Biological control of the eucalyptus gall wasp Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead); taxonomy and biology of the parasitoid species Closterocerus chamaeleon (Girault), with information on its establishment in Israel. Biological Control, 42 (2), 196 - 206. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. biocontrol. 2007.05.002
- Protasov, A., La Salle, J., Blumberg, D., Brand, D., Saphir, N., Assael, F., Fisher, N. & Mendel, Z. (2007 b) Biology, revised taxonomy and impact on host plants of Ophelimus maskelli, an invasive gall inducer on Eucalyptus spp. in the Mediterranean area. Phytoparasitica, 35 (1), 50 - 76. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02981061
- Boucek, Z. (1988) Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon & Cambrian News Ltd, Aberystwyth, 832 pp.
- Caleca, V. (2010) First record in Algeria of two eulophid wasps: Clostocerus chamaeleon (Girault) and its host, the eucalyptus gallwasp Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera Eulophidae). Naturalista Siciliano, 34 (1 - 2), 201 - 206.