Neanastatus, Girault, 1913

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 : 411

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scientific name	Neanastatus
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Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 1 ♀ (dried) Urrbrae Wetlands, 34°57.94’S 138°37.20’E, B. Hyder, 22.viii.2014, from axial stem gall on E. camaldulensis GoogleMaps .

Notes on biology. Species of Neanastatus have been recorded as primary parasitoids of Cecidomyiidae , especially those associated with grasses and galls on herbaceous plants ( Bouček 1988). Neanastatus was recorded as a solitary, primary ectoparasitoid of F. turneri from Melaleuca ( Davies et al. 2001, Goolsby et al. 2001).

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.