| Qrocodiledundee | |
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| Male holotype of Q. outbackense | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Braconidae |
| Subfamily: | Microgastrinae |
| Genus: | Qrocodiledundee Fernández-Triana, 2018 |
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Qrocodiledundee is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae, with two known species only known from males.1 The genus was described in 2018 and named after the comedy film series Crocodile Dundee.2 It is known from Australia23 and Thailand.1
Description
The genus can be recognized by the flagellomeres with two rows of placodes (flat, plate-like sensory structures), the thorax relatively flattened, the pronotum enlarged dorsally, the propodeum with a lateral projection on each side near the hind margin, and with an incomplete median longitudinal ridge, the second tergite enlarged and rectangular, and the forewing without an areolet.12
Taxonomy
Two species are known to belong to this genus:1
- Q. outbackense Fernández-Triana & Boudreault, 2018
- Q. thailantis Ghafouri Moghaddam & Butcher, 2025
References
References
- Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri; Quicke, Donald L. J.; Arias-Penna, Diana Carolina; Jasso-Martínez, Jovana M.; Latibari, Minoo Heidari; Liu, Zhen; Butcher, Buntika A. (2025-06-30). "Expansion of the distributional range of Qrocodiledundee Fernández-Triana (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae), with the description of a new species in the Oriental region using an integrative taxonomy approach". Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History. 8 (1). doi:10.18476/2025.978354. ISSN 2628-2380.
- Fernandez-Triana, Jose L.; Boudreault, Caroline (2018-06-25). "Seventeen new genera of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from tropical areas of the world". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 64: 25–140. doi:10.3897/jhr.64.25453. ISSN 1314-2607.
- Fernandez-Triana, Jose; Shaw, Mark R.; Boudreault, Caroline; Beaudin, Melanie; Broad, Gavin R. (2020-03-23). "Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)". ZooKeys (920): 1–1089. Bibcode:2020ZooK..920....1F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.920.39128. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7197271. PMID 32390740.