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Camarothorax Mayr

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Unplaced; Subfamily: Epichrysomallinae)

Camarothorax Mayr 1906. Type species: Camarothorax obscurus Mayr 1906.

 
 

Camarothorax bimasculinus Joseph, 1961
 

Camarothorax mutabilis Vincent & Compton, 1992
 

Camarothorax obscurus Mayr, 1906

Distribution

Camarothorax_map

Afrotropical: Sierre Leone, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar, Indo Australian: India, Indonesia, Japan, Oceanic: Aldabra Island, Reunion

Biology

 Gall formers associated with fig species: Ficus infectoria and Ficus ingens

Credits

 Page editing: Aisha Mayekiso

References

Mayr, G. 1906. Neue Feigen-Insekten. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 25:153-187. 

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