Pleurochrysis (wasp)

Pleurochrysis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Chrysididae
Tribe:Chrysidini
Genus:Pleurochrysis
Bohart, 1966

Pleurochrysis is a large genus of cuckoo wasps from the New World, with 36 species distributed from Mexico to Argentina.[1] It is a parasitoid wasp of Cyphomenes anisitsii.[2]

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.


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