A new species of Megastigmus Dalman (Hymenoptera: Torymidae), galling seed capsules of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnhardt (Myrtaceae) in South Africa and Australia

African Entomology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-94

  Grissell, E E ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus; Host adaptation; Introduction; Megastigmus; Syzygium

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; HYMENOPTERA; MEGASTIGMUS; MYRTACEAE; SYZYGIUM; SYZYGIUM CORDATUM; TORYMIDAE;

EID: 33646249975     PISSN: 10213589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. BERRY, J.A. & WITHERS, T.M. 2002. New gall-inducing species of ormocerine pteromalid (sic) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae: Ormocerinae) described from New Zealand. Australian Journal of Entomology 41: 18-22.
2. BOUCEK, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). CAB International, Wallingford.
3. BROOKER, M.I.H. & KLEINIG, D.A. 1994. Field Guide to Eucalypts. Northern Australia. Inkata Press, Sydney, Australia.
4. CHIPPENDALE, G.M. & WOLF, L. 1981. The natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia. Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Special Publication 6: 1-192.
5. CHIPPENDALE, G.M. & JOHNSTON, R.D. 1983. Ecualypts, Volume One. New, revised edition. Koon Wah Printing, Melbourne, Australia.
6. DAHMS, E.C. 1984. A checklist of the types of Australian Hymenoptera described by Alexandre Arsene Girault: III. Chalcidoidea species F-M with advisory notes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 21:579-842.
7. FLOCK, R.A. 1957. Biological notes on a new chalcid-fly from seed-like Eucalyptus galls in California. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 33: 153-155.
8. GLEN, H.F. & VICTOR, J.E. 2000. Myrtaceae. In: Leistner, O.A. (Ed.) Seed Plants of Southern Africa: Families and Genera. Strelitzia 10: 420-422. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
9. GRISSELL, E.E. 1999. An annotated catalog of world Megastigminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 31 (4): 1-92.
10. GRISSELL, E.E. & PRINSLOO, G.L. 2001. Seed-feeding species of Megastigmus (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) associated with Anacardiaceae. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 10: 271-279.
11. LA SALLE, J. 2005. Biology of gall inducers and evolution of gall induction in Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae, Eurytomidae, Pteromalidae, Tanaostigmatidae, Torymidae). In: Roman, A., Schaefer, C.W. & Withers, T.M. (Eds) Biology, Ecology, and Evolution of Gall-inducing Arthropods. 507-537. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.
12. MENDEL, Z., PROTASOV, A., FISHER, N. & LA SALLE, J. 2004. Taxonomy and biology of Leptocybe invasa gen. & sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an invasive gall inducer on Eucalyptus. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 101-113.
13. NOYES J.S. 2003. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. http:// www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/chalcidoids/index. html (accessed 10 September 2003).
14. PALGRAVE, K.C. 1977. Trees of Southern Africa. 1st Edition. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.
15. PALMER, E. & PITMAN, N. 1972. Trees of Southern Africa. A. A. Balkema, Cape Town.
16. PUJADE-VILLAR, J. & RIBA-FLINCH, J.M. 2004. Dos especies australianas de eulófidos, muy dañinas para Eucalyptus spp., introducidas en el nordeste ibérico (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 35: 299-301.
17. RAMAN, A. & WITHERS, T.M. 2003. Oviposition by introduced Ophelimus eucalypti (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and morphogenesis of female-induced galls on Eucalyptus saligna (Myrtaceae) in New Zealand. Bulletin of Entomological Research 93: 55-63.
18. RIEK, E.E. 1966. A new genus of gall-forming megastigmine Torymidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 1199-1206.
19. SCHAUFF, M.E. & GARRISON, R. 2000. An introduced species of Epichrysocharis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) producing galls on Eucalyptus in California with notes on the described species and placement of the genus. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9: 176-181.
20. SCHEFFER, S. & GRISSELL, E.E. 2003. Tracing the geographic origin of Megastigmus transvaalensis (Hymenoptera: Torymidae): an African wasp feeding on a South American plant in North America. Molecular Ecology 12: 415-421.
21. VAN WYK, B. & VAN WYK, P. 1997. Field Guide to the Trees of Southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.
22. VIGGIANI, G., LAUDONIA, S. & BERNARDO, U. 2002. Aumentano gli insetti dannosi agli eucalipti introdotti acidentalmente in Italia. Informatore Agrario 58(12): 86-87.