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Otitesella species ex Ficus tremula tremula

Otitesella Westwood

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

Otitesella Westwood 1883. Type species: Otitesella digitata Westwood, by monotypy.

Paracolystichus Girault 1915. Type species: Paracolystichus compressiventris, by original designation. (Synonymy: Bouĉek 1988).

Otitesella africana species-group

 

Otitesella africana Grandi, 1921

 

Otitesella epicarioides Grandi, 1921

 

Otitesella gnaphalocarpae Risbec, 1951

 

Otitesella royi Wiebes, 1971

Otitesella sesquianellata van Noort, 1988

 

Otitesella tsamvi Wiebes, 1981

Otitesella uluzi Compton, 1988

Otitesella digitata species-group

 

Otitesella ako Ishii,1934

 

Otitesella amplipennis Girault,1915

 

Otitesella clarae Wiebes,1974

 

Otitesella compressiventris Girault,1915

 

Otitesella digitata Westwood,1883

 

Otitesella minima Joseph,1957

 

Otitesella longicauda van Noort 1997

 

Otitesella nefdti van Noort 1997

 

Otitesella pseudoserrata van Noort 1997

 

Otitesella rotunda van Noort 1997

 

Otitesella serrata Mayr 1885

 

Otitesella swezeyi Fullaway,1946

 

Otitesella tsjahelae Priyadarsanan, 2000

Distribution

 

Otitesella_map

Afrotropical: Senegal, Guinea, Sierre Leone, Ivory Coast, Ethiopa, Eritrea,Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, South Africa, Indo-Australian: Australia, Guam, India, Japan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia,  Sri Lanka, Yemen

Biology

Phytophagous gallers of ovule (external oviposition)

Reference

Girault, A.A. 1915. Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea - XIII. The family Agaonidae with descriptions of new (genera and) species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 4:310-313.  

Westwood, J.O. 1883. Further descriptions of insects infesting figs. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1883: 29-47, plts iv-x.

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