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Otitesellinae Joseph 1964

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

Classification

Comptoniella_vannoorti

Comptoniella Wiebes 1992

 

Eujacobsonia Grandi, 1923

 

Gaudalia Wiebes, 1967

 

Grandiana Wiebes, 1961

 

Grasseiana Abdurahiman & Joseph, 1967

Lipothymus Grandi, 1921

 

Marginalia Priyadarsanan, 2000

Micranisa_ralianga

Micranisa Walker, 1875

 

Micrognathophora Grandi, 1921

Otitesella

Otitesella Westwood, 1883

 

Philosycus Wiebes, 1969

 

Philosycella Abdurahiman & Joseph, 1976

Walkerella Westwood, 1883

Distribution

 

Old World

 

Biology

 

Hosts: Ficus species in Subgenus Urostigma (Sections Urostigma; Stilpnophyllum; Galoglychia) Subgenus Pharmacosycea (Section Oreosycea); Subgenus Sycomorus (Section Sycocarpus); Subgenus Sycidium (Section Sycidium)

Reference

 

Joseph, K.J. 1964. A proposed revision of the classification of the fig insects of the families Agaonidae and Torymidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B). 33: 63-66.

Next genus: Ficicola (Pteromalinae)  

 


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