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Platyscapa awekei Wiebes

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

Platyscapa awekei Wiebes 1977. Holotype in National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Ethiopa.

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Distribution

Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, United Arab Emerites, Yemen.

Biology

Pollinator of the host fig: Ficus salicifolia Vahl.

References

van Noort, S. & Compton, S.G. 1999. Fig wasps (Agaonidae, Hymenoptera) and fig trees (Moraceae) of Mkomazi. In Coe, M. J., McWilliam, N. C., Stone, G. N. & Packer, M. (eds). Chapter 18: 299-320. Mkomazi: the ecology, biodiversity and conservation of a Tanzanian Savanna. Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers), London

van Noort, S. & van Harten, A. 2006. Fig wasp (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) species richness of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 22: 449-472.

van Noort, S. & Rasplus J.Y. In press. Order Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea associated with figs (families Agaonidae & Pteromalidae) Arthropod fauna of the United Arab Emirates 3.

Wiebes J.T. 1977. Agaonid fig wasp from Ficus salicifolia Vahl and some related species of the genus Platyscapa Motschoulsky (Hym., Chalc.). Neth. J. Zool. 27:209–223.

Credits

Photographs & illustrations © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums).

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