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Agaon kiellandi Wiebes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Agaon)

Agaon kiellandi Wiebes 1974. Holotype in The National Natural History Museum, The Netherlands. Type locality: Tanzania

Classification
Agaon_kiellandi_habitus Agaon_kiellandi_head_lateral
Agaon_kiellandi_head_dorsal Agaon_kiellandi_head_ventral
Agaon_kiellandi_mesosoma_dorsal Agaon_kiellandi_wing
Agaon_kiellandi_antennal_club

Agaon_kiellandi_female_P025033_labels
Agaon_kiellandi_male_P025033_habitus_lateral Agaon_kiellandi_male_P025033_habitus_dorsal
Agaon_kiellandi_male_P025033_head_pronotum_dorsal Agaon_kiellandi_male_P025033_head_pronotum_lateral
Agaon_kiellandi_male_P025033_mesonotum_propodeum_dorsal Agaon_kiellandi_male_P025033_fore_leg
Agaon_kiellandi_male_P025033_hind_leg  

Distribution

 

 

Distribution_of_Agaon_kiellandi

Cameroon, Gabon, Tanzania and Uganda, but probably present throughout the range of the host figs (lighter green areas)

Biology

 Host figs: Ficus conraui, Ficus cyathistipula pringsheimiana, Ficus densistipulata

References

Wiebes, J.T. 1974. Species of Agaon Dalman and Allotriozoon Grandi from Africa and Malagasy (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae). Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden. 48(13):123-143.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town)

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