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Apocryptini Wiebes

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

Apocryptini Wiebes 1966. Type species: Apocrypta Wiebes 1966.

Classification

Apocrypta

Distribution

Old World

Biology

Parasitoids/inquilines of other fig wasps associated with section Sycomorus

Reference

Wiebes, J.T. 1966. The structure of the ovipositing organs as a tribal characters in the Indo-Australian Sycophaginae Torymidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden. 41:151-159.

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