Plutarchia (wasp)

Plutarchia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eurytomidae
Subfamily: Eurytominae
Genus: Plutarchia
Girault, 1925[1]
Type species
Plutarchia bicarinativentris
Girault, 1925[1]

Plutarchia is a genus of chalcid wasp in the subfamily Eurytominae. Alexandre Arsène Girault first circumscribed the genus in 1925; its name honors Plutarch. The genus initially only comprised its type species, P. bicarinativentris, found in Australia. Subsequent species from South Asia and Nigeria have been described and transferred to Plutarchia.

Biology

Species in the genus Plutarchia are parasitoids of the puparia of leaf-miner flies.[2]

Distribution

Species in the genus Plutarchia have been found in Africa, South Asia, and Australasia.[2] Of the described species, one is from Africa, one is from Australia, and 11 are from South Asia.[2]

Species

As of 2021, the Universal Chalcidoidea Database recognizes the following 13 species:[3]

There are at least three additional undescribed species.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Girault, A. A. (1925). Indications (In New Insects) of Ruling Power and Law in Nature. Brisbane: Private publication. p. 3.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Narendran, T.C. (1994). "Genus Plutarchia Girault". Torymidae and Eurytomidae of Indian Subcontinent. Kerala, India: Department of Zoology, University of Calicut. pp. 193–201.
  3. ^ Noyes, J. S. (March 2019). "Universal Chalcidoidea Database". Natural History Museum. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Narendran, T.C.; Padmasenan, R. (1990). "A Study on the Indian Species of Plutarchia Girault (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 87 (1): 114–122. ISSN 0006-6982.
  5. ^ Dahms, Edward Clive (1983). "A checklist of the types of Australian Hymenoptera described by Alexandre Arsene Girault: II. Preamble and Chalcidoidea species A-E with advisory notes". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 21 (1): 124.
  6. ^ a b Subba Rao, B. R. (1974). "Redescriptions of Plutarchia Girault and Axanthosoma Girault with the description of a new species of Plutarchia from Nigeria (Eurytomidae: Hymenoptera)". Journal of Entomology Series B, Taxonomy. 42 (2): 199–206. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1974.tb00075.x.
  7. ^ Motschoulsky, Victor de (1863). "Essai d'un Catalogue des Insectes de l'Île Ceylan (Suite)". Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou. 36 (3): 42.
  8. ^ Dalla Torre, C. G. de (1898). "Eurytoma". Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. V. Guilelmus Engelmann: Lipsia. p. 337.
  9. ^ Walker, F. (1860). "Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Third Series. 6 (35): 358. doi:10.1080/00222936008697340.

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