(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Sycoryctinae; Tribe: Philotrypesini; Genus: Philotrypesis)
Cynips caricae Linnaeus 1762. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality:
Caucasus, France, Israel, Italy, U.S.A. Ukraine, USSR, USSR-Central Asia
Parasitoid of Blastophaga psenes
Linnaeus, C. 1762. Reise nach Palästina. 606pp. Rostock, Honne Ed: T.H. Gadebush Text in German.
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