Josephiella Narendran

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Unplaced; Subfamily: Epichrysomallinae)

Josephiella Narendran 1994. Type species: Josephiella malabarensis Narendran 1994.

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Josephiella malabarensis Narendran, 1994

Josephiella microcarpae Beardsley & Rasplus, 2001

Distribution

India

Biology

Host: Ficus benghalensis and Ficus microcarpa (developing in leaf galls) (Moraceae).

Credits

References

Beardsley J.W. & Rasplus J.Y. 2001. A new species of Josephiella (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae) forming leaf galls on Ficus microcarpa L. (Moraceae). Journal of Natural History 35: 33-40.

Narendran, T.C. & Sheela, S. 1994. Descriptions of an interesting new genus and a new species of Epichrysomalinae [sic] (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae). Journal of the Zoological Society of Kerala. 3(1):7-12.  

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

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