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Robertsia vaamondei van Noort & Rasplus 

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

Robertsia vaamondei van Noort & Rasplus 2005. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Papua New Guinea

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Distribution

Robertsia vaamondei_map

Papua New Guinea

Biology

Host fig: Ficus xylosycia (Diels)

Reference

van Noort S. & Rasplus, J.Y. 2005. Revision of the Papua New Guinean fig wasp genus Robertsia Bouček (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Sycoecinae). Zootaxa 929: 1-35.

Credits

 Paratype Robertsia vaamondei photographs © Simon van Noort published in van Noort & Rasplus 2005

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