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Pleurochrysis (wasp)

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Genus of wasps

Pleurochrysis
Scientific classification Edit this 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. One species is a parasitoid of the potter wasp Cyphomenes anisitsii.

References

  1. Kimsey, L.S., Bohart, R.M. 1990. The Chrysidid Wasps of the World. Oxford University Press. 652 pp.
  2. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Pleurochrysis


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