Chalcis (wasp)

Chalcis is a wasp genus in the subfamily Chalcidinae.^[1]

Chalcis
Chalcis biguttata Spinola, 1808.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Chalcidoidea
Family:	Chalcididae
Subfamily:	Chalcidinae
Genus:	Chalcis Fabricius, 1787
Type species
Chalcis sispes (Linnaeus, 1761)
Species
See text

Species

According to waspweb.org, there are 19 species in the Afrotropics :^[2]

• Chalcis amphilochus Walker, 1846 (Sierra Leone)
• Chalcis bicolor Bingham, 1902 (Zimbabwe)
• Chalcis capensis Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)
• Chalcis ferox Kieffer, 1905 (Madagascar)
• Chalcis flavitarsis Kieffer, 1905 (Madagascar)
• Chalcis fuscus Schmitz, 1946 (Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Chalcis melanogastra Cameron, 1907 (South Africa)
• Chalcis melanospila Cameron, 1907 (South Africa)
• Chalcis microlinea Walker, 1862 (South Africa)
• Chalcis natalensis Cameron, 1907 (South Africa)
• Chalcis polyctor Walker, 1841 (South Africa)
• Chalcis pymi Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)
• Chalcis resus Walker, 1850 (Sierra Leone)
• Chalcis rotundata Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)
• Chalcis saussurei Kieffer, 1905 (Madagascar)
• Chalcis spilopus Cameron, 1905 (South Africa)
• Chalcis transvaalensis Cameron, 1911 (South Africa)
• Chalcis vera Boucek, 1974 (Namibia, South Africa)
• Chalcis visellus Walker, 1846 (Sierra Leone)