Parasitoids of Fruit-Infesting Tephritidae

Psyttalia ophthalmica (Tobias, 1977)

Psyttalia ophthalmica is known only from the Maritime Region of far eastern Russia, around Vladivostok, where it has been reared from Rhagoletis in Lonicera and briars.

For additional information, see the Psyttalia page.

Originally described in the genus Opius, subgenus Psyttalia. Wharton (1987) subsequently elevated Psyttalia to generic rank and formally transferred this species to Psyttalia in Wharton (1997).

Native

Far East Russia (Tobias, V. I. 1977.; Tobias, V. I. and Jakimavicius, A. 1986.; Tobias, V. I. 1977.; Tobias, V. I. 2000.)