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Westwoodia
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Westwoodia

Brullé, 1846

Westwoodia[1] is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae. A neotropical genus of butterflies was known as Westwoodia but is now referred to as Xenandra.

Description and distribution

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The genus is endemic to Australia[2] and has been previously documented in northeastern, southeastern and western Australia.[3] Like other genera in the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae, Westwoodia are koinobiont endoparasitoids of sawflies. All known Westwoodia host species are sawflies in the subfamily Perginae.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Gauld, I.D. (1984). An introduction to the Ichneumonidae of Australia., British Museum (Natural History) Publication No.895.
  2. ^ Yu, D.S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. (2005). World Ichneumonoidea 2004. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Taxapad 2005.
  3. ^ a b Wharton, R. A., Roeder, K., & Yoder, M. J. (2008). A monograph of the genus Westwoodia (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Zootaxa, 1855(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1855.1.1‌