(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily Sycoecinae; Genus: Crossogaster)
Crossogaster triformis Mayr 1885. Holotype: desposition unknown Type locality: Socotra, Yemen
Yemen (Socotra)
Host fig: Ficus vasta Forssk.
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.
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