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Courtella_wardi

Courtella Kieffer

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

Courtella Kieffer 1911. Type species: Courtella hamifera Kieffer 1911.

Classification

 

Courtella armata (Wiebes, 1974)

 

Courtella bekiliensis bekiliensis (Risbec, 1956)

 

Courtella bekiliensis bispinosa (Wiebes, 1969)

 

Courtella camerunensis (Wiebes, 1974)

 

Courtella gabonensis Wiebes, 1985

 

Courtella hamifera hamifera Kieffer, 1911

 

Courtella hladikae (Wiebes, 1979)

 

Courtella malawi Wiebes, 1990

Courtella medleri (Wiebes, 1972)

 

Courtella michaloudi (Wiebes, 1979)

 

Courtella penicula (Wiebes, 1974)

 

Courtella scobinifera (Waterston, 1920)

 

Courtella sylviae Wiebes, 1986

Courtella wardi Compton, 1990

Distribution

 

Courtella_map

Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon,  Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Madagascar

Biology

Hosts: Ficus lucanda (Moracaeae), Ficus ottoneafolia (Moracaeae)

References

Kieffer, J.J. 1911. Description de deux nouveaux chalcidides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 80:463-466.

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