Pleurochrysis (wasp)
Appearance
Pleurochrysis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Chrysididae |
Tribe: | Chrysidini |
Genus: | Pleurochrysis Bohart, 1966 |
Pleurochrysis is a genus of cuckoo wasps from the New World, with 36 species distributed from Mexico to Argentina.[1] One species is a parasitoid of the potter wasp Cyphomenes anisitsii.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Kimsey, L.S., Bohart, R.M. 1990. The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford University Press. 652 pp.
- ^ Auko, Tiago H.; Trad, Bhrenno M.; Silvestre, Rogerio (2014-12-01). "Five new associations of parasitoids in potter wasps (Vespidae, Eumeninae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 58 (4): 376–378. doi:10.1590/S0085-56262014005000004. ISSN 0085-5626.