Obeza

There are eight species in this genus which are Parasitoids of ants.

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List of Obeza and their Host Ants

Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution	Notes
Obeza floridana	(Ashmead, 1888)	Camponotus floridanus	Cuba, United States: Florida, Georgia
Obeza grenadensis	(Howard, 1897)	ants	Grenada
Obeza maculata	(Westwood, 1874)	ants	Brazil
Obeza meridionalis	(Kirby, 1889)	ants	Brazil
Obeza nigriceps	(Ashmead, 1904)	ants	Brazil
Obeza nigromaculata	(Cameron, 1884)	ants	Nicaragua
Obeza semifumipennis	(Girault, 1911)	ants	Paraguay
Obeza septentrionalis	(Brues, 1907)	ants	Mexico, United States: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas

REFERENCES

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• Brues, C.T. 1907. Notes and descriptions of North American parasitic Hymenoptera. 4. Bulletin Wisconsin Natural History Society (new series) 5: 96-111.

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• Girault, A.A. 1911. New chalcidoid genera and species from Paraguay. Zoologische Jahrbücher 31: 377-406.

• Heraty, J.M. A revision of the Nearctic Eucharitinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eucharitidae). JOURBOOK: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario VOLUME: 116 PAGES: 61-103. (1985).

• 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).

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• Risbec, J. 1958. Chalcidoïdes nouveaux d'Afrique du Sud. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia No 22(B):147-162.

• Torrens, Javier. (2013). A Review of the Biology of Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Argentina. Psyche A Journal of Entomology. 2013. 14. 10.1155/2013/926572.

• Westwood, J.O. 1868. Descriptions of new genera and species of Chalcididae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1868:xxxvii

• Westwood, J.O. Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis; or, illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects, PAGES: xxiv+205pp, 40 plates. (1874).