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Courtella armata (Wiebes)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Courtella)

Agaon armata Wiebes 1974. Holotype in The National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Nigeria

Distribution

 

 

Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Biology

Host fig: Ficus sansibarica sansibarica Warb. (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia)

 

Host: Ficus sansibarica macrosperma (Mildbr. & Burret) Berg (Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zambia)

References

Wiebes, J.T. 1974. Species of Agaon Dalman and Allotriozoon Grandi from Africa and Malagasy (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae). Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden. 48(13):123-143.

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