Species Ophelimus maskelli (Ashmead, 1900)

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• Pteroptrix maskelli Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Notes on some New Zealand and Australian parasitic Hymenoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 327-360 [346].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM 4899 ♀, Wellington, NZ.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. London : CAB International 832 pp. [607].

Introduction

First found "… in California, USA on March 17, 2014, in Riverside County, University of California Riverside Campus (UCR)", and commonly found subsequently elsewhere in California (Burks et al. 2015). Recorded as an exotic pest in Italy in 1999. Recently been found in "the Mediterranean Basin, but also Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam". Now found in NSW.

General References

Burks, R.A., Mottern, J.L., Waterworth, R. & Paine, T.D. 2015. First report of the Eucalyptus gall wasp, Ophelimus maskelli (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an invasive pest on Eucalyptus, from the Western Hemisphere. Zootaxa 3926(3): 448–450

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