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Alfonsiella Waterston

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

Alfonsiella Waterston 1920. Type species: Afonsiella fimbriata Waterston 1920.

Classification

 

Alfonsiella bergi Wiebes, 1988

 

Alfonsiella binghami Wiebes, 1988

 

Alfonsiella brongersmai Wiebes, 1972

 

Alfonsiella fimbriata Waterston, 1920

 

Alfonsiella longiscapa Joseph, 1959

 

Alfonsiella michaloudi Wiebes, 1988

  Alfonsiella natalensis Wiebes, 1972
  Alfonsiella pipithiensis Erasmus, van Noort, Jousselin & Greeff, 2007

Distribution

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Guinea, Gabon, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa

Biology

Host figs: Ficus species in subsections Chlamydodora and Platyphyllae (section Galoglychia) (Family: Moraceae)

References

Erasmus J.C., van Noort, S., Jousselin E.,& Greeff, J.M. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of fig wasp pollinators (Agaonidae; Hymenoptera) in Ficus section Galoglychia. Zoologica Scripta 36: 61-78.

Waterston, J. 1920. A new blastophagine genus and species from E. Africa (Hymenoptera - Chalcidoidea). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3). 56:197-200.

Wiebes J.T., 1988. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, II. (Alfonsiella). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 91: 429-436.

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