Cirrospilus sp.

Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 1 ♀ (dried) Torrens River Linear Park, 34°55.06’S 138°35.81’E, G. Taylor & B. Hyder, 14.viii.2014, nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 1–3.xi.2014 ; 1 ♀ (dried) Mt Barker, 35°05.09’S 138°51.86’E, 14.x.2014, Em. 28.x.2014, DNA extracted (003_COE_AD_ EC) .

Notes on biology. Species of Cirrospilus are recorded as parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of leaf miners and other concealed hosts or are associated with plant galls, especially on eucalypts (Bouček 1988, Reina & La Salle 2005). Cirrospilus was recorded from galls of F. lockharti from Eucalyptus (Taylor et al. 1996, Taylor et al. 2005) and F. turneri from Melaleuca (Davies et al. 2001, Goolsby et al. 2001). In these studies Cirrospilus was considered a primary parasitoid of Fergusonina or a facultative hyperparasitoid of gall associated Hymenoptera .