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Crossogaster ovata van Noort

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

Crossogaster ovata van Noort 1994. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Uganda
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Figs. 74 & 75. Crossogaster ovata van Noort, female: 74, mandible, ventral view; 75, head, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Distribution

Crossogaster ovata_map

Uganda

Biology

Host fig: Ficus ovata Vahl.

Reference

van Noort S., 1994a. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), III (Crossogaster). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97(1): 83-122.

Credits

Photographs and illustrations © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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