Seres Waterston

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

Seres Waterston 1919. Type species: Seres armipes Waterston 1919.

Seres armipes armipes Waterston, 1919

Seres armipes breviceps Wiebes, 1961

Seres longicalcar van Noort, 1993

Seres solweziensis van Noort, 1993

Seres wardi van Noort, 1993

Distribution

Restricted to the Afrotropical region

Biology

Non-pollinators, entering the fig and galling ovules in fig species of Section Galoglychia, Subsection Caulocarpae

Reference

van Noort S., 1993. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), I (Seres). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 96(2): 233-251.  

Waterston, J. 1919. A new sycophagine (Agaonidae-Chalcidoidea) genus and species from the Gold Coast. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 55, 274-277.

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