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Courtella penicula (Wiebes)

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

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

Distribution

 

 

Courtella penicula_map

Ivory Coast, Ghana, Gabon, Uganda

Biology

Host fig: Ficus artocarpoides Warb. 

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.

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