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Otitesella sesquianellata van Noort

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

Otitesella sesquianellata van Noort 1988 (in van Noort & Compton). Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: South Africa
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Distribution

 

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South Africa

Biology

 Host fig tree: Ficus burtt-davyi Hutch.

Reference

van Noort, S. & Compton, S.G. 1988. Two new species of Otitesella (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) from Ficus burtt-davyi. Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet. Ser. C 91:419–427.

Credits

 Photographs of NON-TYPE © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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