Pseudochalcura

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

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List of Pseudochalcura and their Host Ants

Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution	Notes
Pseudochalcura alba	Heraty & Heraty, 2009	ants	Argentina
Pseudochalcura americana	(Howard, 1894)	Camponotus	United States: Florida. Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay
Pseudochalcura atra	Heraty, 1986	ants	Mexico
Pseudochalcura carinata	Torrens, 2016	ants	Argentina
Pseudochalcura chilensis	Kieffer, 1904	ants	Chile
Pseudochalcura condylus	Heraty, 1986	ants	Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago
Pseudochalcura excruciata	Heraty, 1986	ants	Brazil
Pseudochalcura frustrata	Hearty, 1986	ants	Argentina
Pseudochalcura gibbosa	(Provancher, 1881)	Camponotus novaeboracensis	Canada, United States: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin.
Pseudochalcura liburna	Heraty, 1985	ants	United States: Florida
Pseudochalcura nigrocyana	Ashmead, 1904	ants	Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela
Pseudochalcura pauca	Heraty, 1986	ants	Argentina
Pseudochalcura prolata	Heraty, 1986	ants	Argentina, Uruguay
Pseudochalcura sculpturata	Heraty, 1985	ants	United States: Florida; Brazil
Pseudodchalcura septuosa	Heraty, 1986	ants	Mexico

REFERENCES

• Ashmead, W.H. Classification of the chalcid flies of the superfamily Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. JOURBOOK: Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum VOLUME: 1(4) PAGES: i-xi,225-551,39pls. (1904).

• 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. 1986. Pseudochalcura (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae): a New World genus parasitic upon ants. Systematic Entomology 11: 183-212.

• 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).

• Heraty J, Torréns J (2009) A new species of Pseudochalcura (Hymenoptera, Eucharitidae), with a review of antennal morphology from a phylogenetic perspective. ZooKeys 20: 215-231.

• Howard, L.O. 1894. Report on the Chalcididae of the subfamilies Chalcidinae, Eucharinae, Perilampinae, Encyrtinae, Aphelininae, Pireninae, Elasminae and Elachistinae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 25: 84-85.

• Kieffer, J.J. 1904. Neue Eucharinae and Chalcidinae. (In German.) Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 44: 240-265.

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