(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.
Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa.
Host: Ficus abutilifolia (Miq.) Miq.
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.
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