Chalcura

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

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List of Chalcura and their Host Ants

Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution	Notes
Chalcura aeginetus	(Walker 1846)	ants	India
Chalcura aeneobrunnea	(Girault, 1929)	ants	Australia
Chalcura affinis	(Bingham, 1906)	ants	Australia
Chalcura bicoloriventris	(Girault, 1915)	ants	Australia
Chalcura bispinosa	(Girault, 1929)	ants	Australia
Chalcura brunneipolita	(Girault, 1934)	ants	Australia
Chalcura bunyae	(Girault, 1934)	ants	Australia
Chalcura cameroni	(Kirby, 1886)	ants	Singapore
Chalcura deprivata	(Walker, 1860)	Odontomachus haematodus	Sri Lanka
Chalcura elongata	(Girault, 1940)	ants	Australia
Chalcura hemiglabra	(Girault, 1940)	ants	Australia
Chalcura hyalina	(Girault, 1913)	ants	Australia
Chalcura maculata	Watanabe, 1958	ants	Marshall Islands
Chalcura magnifica	(Girault, 1913)	ants	Australia
Chalcura maximovichi	(Girault, 1936)	ants	Australia
Chalcura monilicornis	(Girault, 1940)	ants	Australia
Chalcura niayensis	Risbec, 1957	ants	Australia
Chalcura nigricyanea	(Girault, 1913)	Rhytidoponera metallica	Australia
Chalcura orientalis	(Girault, 1913)	ants	Australia
Chalcura partiglabra	(Girault, 1926)	ants	Australia
Chalcura peterseni	(Hedqvist, 1978)	ants	Australia
Chalcura polita	(Girault, 1915)	Rhytidoponera metallica	Australia
Chalcura purpura	(Girault, 1913)	ants	Australia
Chalcura ramosa	(Girault, 1940)	ants	Australia
Chalcura rufiventris	(Walker, 1862)	ants	Australia
Chalcura samoana	Fullaway, 1940	ants	Australia
Chalcura sanguiniventris	(Girault, 1929)	ants	Australia
Chalcura turneri	(Kirby, 1894)	ants	Australia
Chalcura upeensis	Fullaway, 1913	ants	Australia
Chalcura volusus	(Walker, 1839)	ants	Australia

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• Bingham, C.T. 1906. VIII. Noter upon some remarkable parasitic insects from North Queensland [by F.P. Dodd]; with an appendix containing descriptions of new species. 1. New species of Braconidae and Chalcididae from north Queensland bred by F.P. Dodd [125-130]. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 44: 119-130.

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• Fullaway, D.T. New species from the Bishop Museum collection of Samoan parasitic Hymenoptera. JOURBOOK: Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society VOLUME: 10 PAGES: 399-410. (1940).

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• Girault, A.A. (1913) More new genera and species of chalcidoid Hymenoptera. Hymenoptera from Paraguay., JOURBOOK: Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A) VOLUME: 79(6) PAGES: 51-69

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