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Philotrypesini

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

Philotrypesini Wiebes 1966. Type gernus: Philotrypesis Wiebes 1966.

ClassificationIdentification Keys

Philotrypesis Förster 1878

Distribution

Old World: Afrotropical, Oriental and Australsian regions.

Biology

Parasitoids/inquilines of other fig wasps associated with sections: Conosycea, Galoglychia, Sycocarpus, Urostigma, Ficus and Sycidium.

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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