''Selitrichodes'' is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae,
most of which are
parasitoid
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host (biology), host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionarily stable str ...
s associated with
gall
Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors or war ...
producing insects on ''
Eucalyptus
''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of ''Eucalyptus'' are trees, often Mallee (habit), mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalyp ...
''.
[Kim, I.-K.; Mendel, Z.; Protasov, A.; Blumberg, D.; La Salle, J. (2008) Taxonomy, biology, and efficacy of two Australian parasitoids of the eucalyptus gall wasp, ''Leptocybe invasa'' Fisher & La Salle (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae: Tetrastichinae). Zootaxa, 1910: 1–20.]
References
Eulophidae
Taxa named by Alexandre Arsène Girault
Hymenoptera genera
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