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Syceurytoma ficus Bouček

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Unplaced; Family: Eurytomidae, Genus: Syceurytoma)

Syceurytoma ficus Bouček 1981( in Bouček, Watsham &  Wiebes). Holotype in The Natural Museum, London. Type locality: Zimbabwe

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Distribution

Syceurytoma ficus_map

Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Biology

Host: stem galls on Ficus sycomorus L. 

Host: Ficus burkei (Miq.) Miq.

Credits

References

Bouček Z., A. Watsham & J.T. Wiebes, 1981. The fig wasp fauna of the receptacles of Ficus thonningii (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie, 124(5): 149-233.

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