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Platyscapa bergi Wiebes

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

Platyscapa bergi Wiebes 1986. Holotype in National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Madagascar

Distribution

 

 

Platyscapa bergi_map

Madagascar

Biology

Host: Ficus menabeensis Perrier

References

Wiebes J.T., 1986. Agaonidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their figs, I. Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlanse Akademie van Wetenschappen C, 89: 335-355.  

 

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