Goetheana shakespearei Girault (1920)
Eulophid Wasp 

Photography by Max E. Badgley (1922-2006)

Goetheana shakespearei females attacking thrips nymph
Photo © Max E. Badgley, published with permission from the Max E. Badgley Estate, with special thanks to the University of California, Riverside, who kindly supplied this image from the UCR Chalcidoidea database collection.

The genus was named in honor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and the species in honor of William Shakespeare, by the taxonomist Alexandre Arsène Girault, (1884-1941).  Girault often took such taxonomical liberties.

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