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Agaon obtusum Wiebes

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

Agaon obtusum Wiebes 1989. Holotype female in Rijksmuseum Natuurlijke, Leiden. Type localityIvory Coast

Distribution

Ivory Coast, Gabon

Biology

Host: Ficus cyathistipuloides De Wild.

References

Wiebes, J.T. 1989c. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae) : fig wasp and their figs, V. (Agaon). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 92: 395-407.  

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