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Watshamiella Wiebes 

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

Watshamiella Wiebes 1981( in Bouček, Watsham & Wiebes). Type species: Watshamiella alata Wiebes 1981 ( in Bouček, Watsham & Wiebes).

 

  Watshamiella alata Wiebes, 1981
 

Watshamiella aurea (Girault, 1919)

  Watshamiella fictitia Wiebes, 1981
 

Watshamiella infida Wiebes, 1981

  Watshamiella lucens Wiebes, 1981
  Watshamiella species (ex F. altissima)
  Watshamiella stilifera (Wiebes, 1966)

Distribution

 

Watshamiella_map

Australia, Malaysia, Réunion, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe

Biology

 

Reference

 

Bouček Z., 1988. Australian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) : a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, 1-832 pp.

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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