Leprosa
| Leprosa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Eulophidae |
| Subfamily: | Tetrastichinae |
| Genus: | Kim & La Salle, 2008 |
| Species: | L. milga
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| Binomial name | |
| Leprosa milga Kim and La Salle, 2008
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Leprosa milga is a species of Afrotropical wasp in the family Eulophidae, the only member of the genus Leprosa. It is a gall wasp which induces the production of galls on the seed pods of species in the genus Eucalyptus.[1] It probably originated in Australia but has been recorded from South Africa and Italy.[2]
References
- ^ John Noyes. "Synonymic list Leprosa milga Kim and La Salle, 2008". Universal Chalcidoidea Database. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ^ Il-Kwon Kim; John La Salle (2008). "A new genus and species of Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) inducing galls in seed capsules of Eucalyptus". Zootaxa. 1745: 63–68.