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Elisabethiella comptoni Wiebes

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

Elisabethiella comptoni Wiebes 1989. Holotype in NCB Naturalis (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie - RMNH). Type locality: Malawi.

Distribution

 

 

Elisabethiella comptoni_map

Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa.

Biology

Host: Ficus abutilifolia (Miq.) Miq.

References

Wiebes, J.T. 1989. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae) : fig wasp and their figs, III. (Elisabethiella). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 92: 117-136.  

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums).

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