Psilochalcis Kieffer, 1905

Falahatpisheh, Ali, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Dousti, Abu Fazel & Delvare, Gérard, 2018, Review of Iranian Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with nomenclatural notes, Zootaxa 4394 (2), pp. 251-269 : 262

Psilochalcis Kieffer, 1905

The genus Psilochalcis , with 55 species, is well represented in the Palaearctic region. The hosts are known only for a few species, e.g. the Nearctic Psilochalcis described by Grissell & Schauff (1981) were reared respectively from the lepidopterans Elasmopalpus lignosellus (Zeller) (Crambidae) and Stegasta bosqueella (Chambers) (Gelechiidae) . The data relative to the Old World species concern P. ceratoniae , a parasitoid of Apomyelois ceratoniae [= Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller, 1839) ] ( Pyralidae ) in Iran, P. soudanensis (Steffan) which attacks cereal stem borers mainly of the family Crambidae in the Afrotropics (Steffan 1951c; Polaszek et al. 1994), P. capensis (Steffan) a parasitoid of Epascestria [= Loxostege ] frustalis (Zeller) ( Crambidae ) (Steffan 1956) sometimes through Braconidae or Tachinidae (Prinsloo 1980) and P. ghanii (Habu) a parasitoid of Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) (Crambidae) in the Oriental Region.