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Sycoryctes remus Wiebes

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

Sycoryctes remus Wiebes 1981(Bouček, Watsham &  Wiebes). Holotype in The National Natural History Museum, The Netherlands. Type locality: Zimbabwe

 

Distribution

Sycoryctes remus_map

Zambia, Zimbabwe, Réunion, South Africa

Biology

Host: Ficus burkei (Miq.) Miq. 

 

Host: Ficus reflexa reflexaThunb.

 

Reference

Bouček Z., A. Watsham & J.T. Wiebes, 1981. The fig wasp fauna of the receptacles of Ficus thonningii (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie, 124(5): 149-233.

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