Cirrospilus, Westwood, 1832

Taylor, Gary S., Hyder, Brittany K. & Davies, Kerrie A., 2019, New species of gall fly (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) from Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Myrtaceae) in southern Australia and its associated parasitoids and inquilines, Zootaxa 4701 (5), pp. 401-416 : 410-411

Cirrospilus sp.

Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 1 ♀ (dried) Torrens River Linear Park, 34°55.06’S 138°35.81’E, G. Taylor & B. Hyder, 14.viii.2014, nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 1–3.xi.2014 ; 1 ♀ (dried) Mt Barker , 35°05.09’S 138°51.86’E, 14.x.2014, Em. 28.x.2014, DNA extracted (003_COE_AD_ EC) .

Notes on biology. Species of Cirrospilus are recorded as parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of leaf miners and other concealed hosts or are associated with plant galls, especially on eucalypts ( Bouček 1988, Reina & La Salle 2005). Cirrospilus was recorded from galls of F. lockharti from Eucalyptus ( Taylor et al. 1996, Taylor et al. 2005) and F. turneri from Melaleuca ( Davies et al. 2001, Goolsby et al. 2001). In these studies Cirrospilus was considered a primary parasitoid of Fergusonina or a facultative hyperparasitoid of gall associated Hymenoptera .