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Otitesella longicauda van Noort

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

Otitesella longicauda van Noort 1997. Holotype: Type locality:
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Female head.

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Male head.
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Male head.

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Male dorsal view.

Distribution

 Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, South Africa, but probably also present in the remaining distributional area (lighter colour) of the host fig.

Biology

 Host: Ficus ingens (Miq.) Miq. 

Reference

van Noort, S. & Rasplus, J.Y. 1997. Revision of the otiteselline fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae), I : Otitesella digitata species-group of the Afrotropical region, with a key to Afrotropical species of Otitesella Westwood. African Entomology, 5(1): 125-145.

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