''Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae'' is an Australian bud-galling wasp from the family
Pteromalidae
The Pteromalidae are a very large family of mostly parasitoid wasps, with some 3,450 described species in about 640 genera (the number was greater, but many species and genera have been reduced by synonymy in recent years). The subfamily-level d ...
that parasitises, among others, ''
Acacia longifolia
''Acacia longifolia'' is a species of ''Acacia'' native to southeastern Australia, from the extreme southeast of Queensland, eastern New South Wales, eastern and southern Victoria, and southeastern South Australia. Common names for it include lon ...
'' (long-leaved wattle, or Sydney golden wattle), which has become an
invasive pest
An invasive species otherwise known as an alien is an introduced organism that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment. Although most introduced species are neutral or beneficial with respect to other species, invasive species ad ...
in several countries. ''T. acaciaelongifoliae'' has been introduced into South Africa in 1985 and into Portugal in 2015 as a successful biological control agent of ''A. longifolia''.
References
External links
''Trichilogaster acaciaelongifoliae''at WaspWeb
Pteromalidae
Insects used for control of invasive plants
Biological pest control wasps
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