Selitrichodes, Girault, 1913

Taylor, Gary S., Hyder, Brittany K. & Davies, Kerrie A., 2019, New species of gall fly (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) from Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Myrtaceae) in southern Australia and its associated parasitoids and inquilines, Zootaxa 4701 (5), pp. 401-416 : 410

Selitrichodes sp.

Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 1 ♀ (ethanol) Mt Barker Laratinga Wetlands , 35°04.33’S 138°53.15’E, B. Hyder, 28.ix.2014 , nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 9–10.x.2014; 1 ♀ (dried) Urrbrae Wetlands , 34°57.94’S 138°37.20’E, G. Taylor & B. Hyder, 14.viii.2014 , nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 16–17.ix.2014; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (dried) same data, except Em. 20–22.ix.2014 ; 1♂ (dried), Em. 2–3.x.2014; 1 ♂ (dried), Em. 20–23.xi.2014; 1 ♀ (dried), Torrens River Linear Park, 34°55.06’S 138°35.81’E, Em. 2.x.2014 , DNA extracted (005_CIRR_AD_EC).

Notes on biology. Species of Selitrichodes are recorded as primary parasitoids of eulophid gall-forming wasps ( Kim et al. 2008; Dittrich-Schröder et al. 2014) or as a primary gall inducer ( Fisher et al. 2014).