(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Platyscapa)
Platyscapa desertorum Compton 1990 (in Wiebes & Compton 1990). Holotype in S. Compton Collection, England. Type locality: South Africa
Namibia and South Africa, but probably also present in the remaining distributional area (lighter colour) of the host fig (Angola)
Host fig: Ficus cordata cordata Thunberg
Wiebes J.T. & Compton, S.G. 1990. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae) : fig wasps and their figs, VI. (Africa concluded). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 93: 203-222.
Next genus: Pleistodontes Next species: Platyscapa etiennei
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