Liporrhopalum rutherfordi Waterston

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

Liporrhopalum rutherfordi Waterston 1920. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Sri Lanka

Synonym: Lipporrhopalum indicus Wiebes 1994

Distribution

Sri Lanka, India

Biology

Host fig: Ficus tinctoria Forst.f. subsp. parasitica (Willd.) Corner var parasitica

References

Waterston, J. 1920. Notes on fig insects, including descriptions of three new species and a new blastophagine genus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1920:128-136, 3 figs.

Wiebes JT. 1994. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, XIII (Ceratosolen & additions). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet. Ser. C 97:123–136.

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