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Sycoryctes caelebs Wiebes

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

Sycoryctes caelebs Wiebes 1975. Holotype in The National Natural History Museum, The Netherlands. Type locality

Aldabra Islands

 

Distribution

Aldabra Island, Réunion

Biology

Host: Ficus rubra Forssk. 

Host: Ficus densifolia Miq.

 

Reference

Wiebes, J.T. 1975. Fig insects from Aldabra (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Entomologiske Meddelelser. 49(16):225-236.

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