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Walkerella Westwood

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

Walkerella Westwood 1883. Type species: Walkerella temeraria Westwood 1883.

 

Walkerella benjamini Joseph,1957

 

Walkerella dubia Girault,1916

 

Walkerella  jacobsoni Grandi,1921

 

Walkerella kurandensis Bouček,1988

 

Walkerella microcarpae Bouček,1993

Walkerella sp.

 

Walkerella temeraria Westwood,1883

Distribution

 

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Australia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Taiwan, U.S.A.

Biology

Host: Coccus viridis (Coccidae)

Reference

Westwood, J.O. 1883. Further descriptions of insects infesting figs. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1883: 29-47, plts iv-x.

Credits

Photo © Jean-Yves Rasplus

 

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