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

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scientific name	Cirrospilus
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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 GoogleMaps ; 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) GoogleMaps .

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 .

References

Boucek, Z. (1988) Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A Biosystematic Revision of Genera of Fourteen Families, with a Reclassification of Species. CAB International, Wallingford, pp. 1 - 832.

Davies, K. A., Makinson, J. R. & Purcell, M. F. (2001) Observations on the development and parasitoids of Fergusonina / Fergusobia galls on Melaleuca quinquenervia (Myrtaceae) in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 125, 45 - 50.

Goolsby, J. A., Burwell, C. J., Makinson, J. & Driver, F. (2001) Investigation of the biology of Hymenoptera associated with Fergusonina sp. (Diptera: Fergusoninidae), a gall fly of Melaleuca quinquenervia, integrating molecular techniques. Journal of Hymenopteran Research, 10, 163 - 180.

Reina, P. & La Salle, J. (2005) Key to the world genera of Eulophidae parasitoids (Hymenoptera) of Leafmining Agromyzidae (Diptera). Available from: http: // www. ento. csiro. au / science / eulophid _ key / EULOPHIDAE / eulophids / html / taxa. html (accessed 30 March 2015)

Taylor, G. S., Austin, A. D. & Davies, K. A. (1996) Biology of the gall-forming fly, Fergusonina flavicornis Malloch (Diptera: Fergusoninidae), and its associated Hymenoptera in South Australia, with a description of a new species of Bracon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 120, 131 - 146.

Taylor, G. S., Head, E. R. & Davies, K. A. (2005) Gall flies (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) on Myrtaceae: a mutualistic association between flies and nematodes. In: Raman, A. Schaefer, C. W. and Withers, T. M. (Eds.), Biology, Ecology, and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire, pp. 643 - 671.