(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily Sycoecinae; Genus: Philocaenus)
Philocaenus arrujumensis van Noort 1994. Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Yemen, ar-Rujum
Yemen
Host fig: unknown, but hypothesised to be either Ficus populifolia or F. vasta
VAN NOORT, S. & VAN HARTEN, A. 2006. Fig wasp (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) species richness of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 22: 449-472.
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