(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Elisabethiella)
Blastophaga socotrensis Mayr, 1885. Holotype Natural History Museum Vienna. Type locality: Socotra Island (Yemen).
Blastophaga dyscritus Waterston, 1921.
Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia.
Hosts: Ficus vasta; Ficus wakefieldii; Ficus natalensis natalensis; Ficus natalensis graniticola.
Mayr, G. 1885. Feigeninsecten. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 35, 147-250.
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