Diaziella bizarrea van Noort & Rasplus

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

Diaziella bizarrea van Noort & Rasplus 2006. Holotype: deposited in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming. Type locality: CHINA, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kunming.

Distribution

CHINA, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, Kunming.

Biology

Host: Ficus glaberrima Blume.

References

van Noort, S., Peng, Y.Q. & Rasplus, J.Y. 2006. First record of the fig wasp genus Diaziella Grandi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae) from the Asian mainland with description of two new species from China. Zootaxa 1337: 39-59.

Credits

Photographs by Simon van Noort © Iziko Museums.

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

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