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Walkerella microcarpae Bouček

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

Walkerella microcarpae Bouček 1988. Holotype: in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Florida, U.S.A.

Distribution

 

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Bermuda, Brazil Cayman Islands, China, Japan, U.S.A.

Biology

Host: Ficus micocarpa (Moraceae)

Reference

Bouček Z., 1988. Australian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) : a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, 1-832 pp.

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