''Leprosa milga'' is a species of
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
wasp in the family
Eulophidae, the only member of the genus ''Leprosa''. It is a
gall wasp which induces the production of
galls
Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...
on the seed pods of species in the genus
Eucalyptus.
It probably originated in Australia but has been recorded from
South Africa and
Italy.
References
Eulophidae
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