Moona Kim & La Salle

Kim, Il-Kwon, Maurice & Salle, John La, 2005, Moona, a new genus of tetrastichine gall inducers (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) on seeds of Corymbia (Myrtaceae) in Australia, Zootaxa 989, pp. 1-10 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.171382
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6266972
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scientific name	Moona Kim & La Salle
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Moona Kim & La Salle View in CoL gen. nov.

Type species: Moona spermophaga . Gender feminine.

Etymology. The genus name Moona comes from an Australian aboriginal word, meaning “gum tree” ( Cooper, 1979). We have chosen this name to signify the relationship of this wasp with gum trees.