Megastigmus sp.

Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, South Australia: 1 ♂ (ethanol) Mt Barker, 35°05.09’S 138°51.86’E, B. Hyder, 28.ix.2014 , nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 7–8.x.2014; 1 ♂ (dried) same data, except Em. 11– 13.x.2014; 2 ♀ (dried) same data, except, Em. 23–24.x.2014; 1 ♀ (dried) Mt Barker Laratinga Wetlands, 35°04.33’S 138°53.15’E, B. Hyder, 28.ix.2014 , nodular stem gall on E. camaldulensis, Em. 25.x.2014, DNA extracted (007_ MEG_AD_EC).

Notes on biology. Species of Megastigmus are recorded as phytophagous or parasitic within galls (Bouček 1988). Two species of Megastigmus were reared from galls of F. lockharti on E. camaldulensis (Taylor et al. 1996), and as a primary parasitoid of the pharate pupae of F. turneri (Davies et al. 2001, Goolsby et al. 2001).