Family AUSTRONIIDAE
Compiler and date details
N.B. Stevens, M. Iqbal & A.D. Austin, Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity and the Department of Applied and Molecular Ecology, Waite Campus, Adelaide University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Introduction
This endemic Australian family of small (4–6 mm), very rarely collected wasps is known from wet forest habitats of southern Australia and Tasmania. Only three species in the genus Austronia are recorded and their biology is unknown (Naumann & Masner 1985; Naumann 1991; Masner 1993).
General References
Masner, L. 1993. Superfamily Proctotrupoidea. pp. 537-557 in Goulet, H. & Huber, J.T. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: An Identification Guide to Families. Ottawa : Research Branch, Agriculture Canada 668 pp.
Naumann, I.D. 1991. Hymenoptera. pp. 916-1000 in Naumann, I.D. (ed.). The Insects of Australia. Melbourne, Vic. : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1037
Naumann, I.D. & Masner, L. 1985. Parasitic wasps of the proctotrupoid complex: a new family from Australia and a key to world families (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea sensu lato). Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 761-783