Megastigmus, Dalman, 1820

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 : 413

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Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 1 ♂ (ethanol) Mt Barker , 35°05.09’S 138°51.86’E, B. Hyder, 28.ix.2014 GoogleMaps , nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 7–8.x.2014; 1 ♂ (dried) same data, except Em. 11– 13.x.2014 GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀ (dried) same data, except, Em. 23–24.x.2014 GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀ (dried) Mt Barker Laratinga Wetlands , 35°04.33’S 138°53.15’E, B. Hyder, 28.ix.2014 GoogleMaps , nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 25.x.2014, DNA extracted (007_ MEG_AD_EC).

Notes on biology. Species of Megastigmus are recorded as phytophagous or parasitic within galls ( Bouček 1988). Two species of Megastigmus were reared from galls of F. lockharti on E. camaldulensis ( Taylor et al. 1996) , and as a primary parasitoid of the pharate pupae of F. turneri ( 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.

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.