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Otitesella nefdti van Noort

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

Otitesella nefdti van Noort 1997 (in van Noort & Rasplus). Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Zambia

Distribution

 

Otitesella nefdti_map

Zambia, South Africa

Biology

 Host: Ficus verruculosa Warb.

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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