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

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

Biology

Gall fomers of ovules in Ficus species.

References

Beardsley, J.W. 1998. Chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) associated with fruit of Ficus microcarpa in Hawai’i. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 33, 19–34.

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A Biosystematic Revision of Genera and Fourteen Families, with a Reclassification of Species. CAB International Institute of Entomology, Wallingford, UK., 832 pp.

Bouček, Z. 1993. The genera of chalcidoid wasps from Ficus fruit in the New World. Journal of Natural History 27: 173-217.

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

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums) or  © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA).

Next genus: Ficicola (Pteromalinae)

Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

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