Waterstoniella brevigena Wiebes

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

Waterstoniella brevigena Wiebes 1992. Holotype female in National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Kalimantan, Indonesia

Distribution

Indonesia (Kalimantan)

Biology

Host fig: Ficus pellucidopunctata Griffith

References

Wiebes JT. 1992. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, IX (Waterstoniella). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet. Ser. C 95:499–514.

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