Pleistodontes addicotti Wiebes

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

Pleistodontes addicotti Wiebes 1991. Holotype in Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra. Type locality: Queensland, Australia

Distribution

Australia

Biology

Host fig: Ficus crassipes F.M. Bailey

References

Wiebes JT. 1991. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, VII (Pleistodontes). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad.Wet. Ser. C 94:137–152.

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