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Comptoniella vannoorti Wiebes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Otitesellinae; Genus: Comptoniella)

Comptoniella vannoorti Wiebes 1992 (in Berg & Wiebes 1992). Holotype: In Type locality: South Africa
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Comptoniella vannoorti Wiebes ovipositing through fig wall.

Distribution

 

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Namibia and South Africa, but probably also present in the remaining distributional area (lighter colour) of the host fig (Angola)

Biology

 Host fig: Ficus cordata cordata Thunberg

Reference

Berg, C.C. & Wiebes, J.T. 1992. African fig trees and fig wasps. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Amsterdam, 1-298 pp.

Credits

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