Austeucharis

There are fourteen species in this genus which are Parasitoids of ants. Host ants are Myrmecia. Austeucharis Bouček, 1988: 525. Type species: Psilogaster pallipes BrullÈ, by original designation. Austeucharis; Heraty, 2002: 90-92. Subsequent description. CITATIONS: Ashmea188845

List of *Austeucharis* and their Host Ants
Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution
Austeucharis boudiennyi	(Girault, 1940)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis fasciiventris	(Brues, 1919)	Myrmecia gulosa, Myrmecia forficata	Australia
Austeucharis flavifemora	(Girault, 1929)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis ilyichi	(Girault, 1936)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis implexa	(Walker, 1862)	Myrmecia pilosula	Australia
Austeucharis kosciuskoi	(Girault, 1940)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis larymna	(Walker, 1846)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis myrmeciae	(Forel, 1890)	Myrmecia forficata	Australia
Austeucharis pallipes	(Brulle, 1846)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis piceicornis	(Walker, 1862)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis pulchra	(Girault, 1913)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis rufiventris	(Ashmead, 1900)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis smaragdina	(Walker, 1862)	ants	Australia
Austeucharis toga	(Girault, 1937)	ants	Australia

REFERENCES

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Boucek, Z. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). PAGES: 832pp. (1988).

Brues, C.T. 1919. A new chalcid-fly parasitic in the Australian bull-dog ant. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 12: 13-23.

Brullé, M.A. 1846. A. LePeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes par M. Le Conte. Hyménoptères. IV. Paris. 680 pp.

Forel, A. 1890. Un parasite de la Myrmecia forficata Fabr. (In French.) Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgiques, Comptes Rendus 20: viii-x.

Girault, A.A. 1913. Some new Australian genera in the hymenopterous families Eurytomidae, Perilampidae, Eucharididae and Cleonymidae. Canadian Entomologist 45: 220-238.

Girault, A.A. 1929. Notes on and descriptions of chalcid wasps in the South Australian Museum. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 309-346.

Girault, A.A. 1936. Terror-errors; and novitates of Pterygota (or Earth realities not state-bound) (Privately. publ., 3 pp.). in: Gordh et al. (1979). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 323-325.

Girault, A.A. 1937. New naturals, unorthodoxies and non-pollutions viz. new hexapods (Privately publ., 3 pp.). in: Gordh et al. (1979). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 326-328.

Girault, A.A. 1940. New genera and species of Australian Elasmidae and Eucharitidae. Rev. Soc. ent. Argentina 10: 321-326.

Heraty, J.M. A revision of the genera of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the World. JOURBOOK: Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute VOLUME: 68 PAGES: 367pp. (2002).

Quevillon, L. 2018. THE ECOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND EVOLUTION OF PARASITES INFECTING ANTS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE). Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University.

Walker, F. 1846. List of the specimens of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I --Chalcidites. London. vii + 100 pp.

Walker, F. 1862. Mr. F. Walker's notes on chalcidites and characters of undescribed species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 380-385.