(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Nigeriella)
Nigeriella letouzeyi Wiebes 1974. Holotype in National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Cameroon
Mandible and mandibular appendage.
Cameroon and Gabon, but probably present throughout the range of the host fig (lighter colour)
Wiebes J.T., 1974. Nigeriella, a new genus of West African fig wasps allied to Elisabethiella Grandi (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae). Zoologische Mededeelingen (Leiden) 48:29–42.
Illustration Simon van Noort © Iziko South African Museum (redrawn from Wiebes 1974)
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