A new species of invasive gall wasp (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae) on blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) in California

Authors

• John La Salle, CSIRO EntomologyFollow
• Gevork Arakelian, Los Angeles County Department of Agricultural Commissioner/Weights & MeasuresFollow
• Rosser W. Garrison, Plant Pest Diagnostics, California Department of Food & AgricultureFollow
• Michael William Gates, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural HistoryFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in Zootaxa 2121: 35–43 (2009) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/

Abstract

The blue gum gall wasp, Selitrichodes globulus La Salle & Gates, n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae), is described as an invasive gall inducer on blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus Labill. (Myrtaceae), in California.