A review of the family Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Egypt
Author
Gadallah, Neveen S.
Author
Edmardash, Yusuf A.
Author
Heraty, John M.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3717
3
389
394
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3717.3.9
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Eucharis
(
Eucharisca
)
bytinskisalzi
Bouček 1956
(
Figs 1–3, 5
,
8–10
)
E.
(
Eucharisca
)
bytinski-salzi
Bouček 1956: 257–259.
Type
data:
Israel
: Bat Yam.
Holotype
♀, by original designation.
Type
depository: NMPC (National Museum (Natural History), Prague,
Czech Republic
).
Material examined.
EGYPT
:
1♂
, 3♀, Kom Oshim (Fayoum) [29? 30′ 22″N; 30? 54′ 50″E],
21.x.2010
;
1♂
, Kom Oshim,
4.xi.2010
, leg. Gadallah & Edmardash (CUE).
ISRAEL
: 1♀ (
holotype
),
Palestine
(Bat Yam),
9.vi.1919
, leg. Bytinski-Salz, UCRC_ENT 334451 (NMPC);
1♂
(allotype),
Palestine
,
6.ix.1948
, leg. Bytinski-Salz, UCRC_ENT 334453 (NMPC).
FIGURES 1–7.
1–3, 5,
Eucharis
(
Eucharisca
)
bytinskisalzi
: 1, ♀ antenna; 2, ♂ antenna (allotype); 3 face of ♀ (holotype). 4,
E.
(
Psilogastrellus
)
punctatus
(habitus). 6 and 7,
E.
(
P.
)
cuprea
: 6, habitus (lectotype); 7, dorsal aspect (lectotype).
Distribution.
Israel
(Bouček 1956),
Egypt
(new record).
Hosts.
Collected very close to the nest of
Cataglyphis bicolor
(Fabricius)
(
Formicidae
:
Formicinae
) around the roots of the field binweed,
Convolvulus arvensis
L. (
Convolvulaceae
). We suspect this to be the host because
Eucharis
(
Eucharisca
)
bedeli
Cameron
was reared from
C. bicolor
(Bedel 1895)
.