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Odontofroggatia Ishii

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

Odontofroggatia Ishii 1934. Type species: Odontofroggatia gajimaru Ishii 1934.

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Odontofroggatia corneri Wiebes,1980

 

Odontofroggatia gajimaru Ishii,1934

Odontofroggatia galili Wiebes,1980

Odontofroggatia quinifuniculus Feng & Huang, 2010
 

Odontofroggatia ishii Wiebes,1980

Distribution

Odontofroggatia_map

Indo-Australian region: Australia, Bermuda, China, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papa New Guinea, Taiwan. Holarctic region: Greece, Israel, Italy, Tunisia, U.S.A., U.S.A.-Hawaii. Oceanic: Solomon Islands.

Biology

Host figs: Ficus microcarpa and F. prasinicarpa.

References

Feng, G. & Huang, D.-W. 2010. Description of a new species of Odontofroggatia (Chalcidoidea, Epichrysomallinae) associated with Ficus microcarpa (Moraceae) with a key to species of the genus. Zootaxa 2335: 40–48.

Ishii, T. 1934. Fig chalcidoids of Japan. Kontyű. 8:84-100.

Wiebes J.T. 1980. The genus Odontofroggatia Ishii (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae Epichrysomallinae). Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden, 56: 1-6.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums) or Gui Feng (Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China).

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

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