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Courtella malawi Wiebes

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

Courtella malawi Wiebes in Wiebes & Compton 1990. Holotype in National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Malawi

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Distribution

 

 

Courtella malawi_map

Malawi

Biology

Host fig:  Ficus chirindensis Berg

References

Wiebes J.T.& S.G. Compton, 1990. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae) : fig wasps and their figs, VI. (Africa concluded). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen ©, 93: 203-222.

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