Neochrysocharis erythraea ( SILVESTRI , 1914)

Madl, Michael, M, Atoposoma & W, Diglyphus, 2023, A catalogue of the family Eulophidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of Eritrea, Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1), pp. 265-273 : 266-267

Neochrysocharis erythraea ( SILVESTRI, 1914)

Achrysocharis formosa erythraea var.nov.: SILVESTRI 1914: 210 (description ♀ ♁, fig. 13, biology, Coazien, Nefasit).

Achrysocharis formosa var. erythraea SILVESTRI, 1914 : SILVESTRI 1915a: 314 (biology, Coazin, Nefasit).

Achrysocharis formosa erythrea (!) SILVESTRI, 1914: THOMPSON 1943: 26 (world host-parasitoid catalogue).

Achrysocharis formosa var. erythrea (!) SILVESTRI, 1914: THOMPSON 1955: 272 (world parasitoid-host catalogue).

Achrysocharella formosa var. erythraea ( SILVESTRI, 1914) : VIGGIANI 1962: 48 (taxonomy, Eritrea ( SILVESTRI 1914)).

Achrysocharis formosa var. erythraea SILVESTRI, 1914 : BOUČEK & ASKEW 1968: 125 (synonym of Achrysocharella formosa (WESTWOOD, 1833)).

Chrysonotomyia erythraea ( SILVESTRI, 1914) : NEUENSCHWANDER 1982: 510 (host-parasitoid catalogue South Africa), 516 (figs 8a, b), 517 (key), 519 (taxonomy (material identified by Z. Bouček), biology, South Africa), 520 (biology, Greece).

Chrysonotomyia sp. near erythraea ( SILVESTRI, 1914) : ABATE 1991: 16 (host-parasitoid catalogue Ethiopia: widely distributed in Ethiopia – Eritrea not mentioned).

Achrysocharis formosa erythrea (!) SILVESTRI, 1914: STIBICK 2004: 38 (tab. 2: world catalogue parasites and predators of Tephritidae : Ethiopia = Eritrea).

H o s t: Diptera , Tephritidae : Bactrocera oleae (ROSSIUS, 1790) ( SILVESTRI 1914, 1915a).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Nefasit, Coazien.

Neochrysocharis erythraea is known from the Afrotropical ( Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Africa, Sudan) and Palaearctic regions. The taxonomic status should be checked.