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Philocaenus Grandi

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

Philocaenus Grandi 1952. Type species:

Phagoblastus Grandi 1955 (Synonymy by van Noort 1994).

ClassificationIdentification Key

  Philocaenus arrujumensis van Noort, 2006
  Philocaenus bakeri van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus barbarus (Grandi, 1955)
  Philocaenus barbatus Grandi, 1952
  Philocaenus bifurcus van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus bouceki (Wiebes, 1981)
  Philocaenus cavus van Noort, 1994
Philocaenus_clairae Philocaenus clairae van Noort, 1994

 

Philocaenus comorensis van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus comptoni van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus geminus van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus hippopotomus van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus insolitus van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus jinjaensis van Noort, 1994

 

  Philocaenus levis (Waterston, 1920)
Philocaenus_liodontus

Philocaenus liodontus (Wiebes, 1979)

 

  Philocaenus medius van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus quatuordentatus van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus rasplusi van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus rotundus van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus silvestrii (Grandi, 1916)
  Philocaenus ugandensis van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus warei van Noort, 1994
  Philocaenus zambesiacus van Noort, 1994

Distribution

 

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Botswana, Cameroon, Comoros, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Réunion, Senegal, Seycelles, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Biology

Host figs: Ficus species in Subgenus Urostigma, Section Galoglychia.

Reference

 

Grandi, G. 1952. Insetti dei fichi senegalesi. Bollettino dell'Istituto di Entomologia della Università degli Studi di Bologna. 19:31-45.

 

van Noort, S. 1994a. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), IV (Philocaenus, in part). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 97: 311-339.

 

van Noort, S. 1994b. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), V (Philocaenus, concluded; generic key; checklist). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97: 341-375.  

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