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Platyscapa binghami Wiebes

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

Platyscapa binghami Wiebes 1980 (in Wiebes & Abdurahim). Holotype in National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Zambia

Distribution

 

 

Platyscapa binghami_map

Zambia, South Africa

Biology

Host fig: Ficus verruculosa Warb.

References

Wiebes J.T. & Abdurahim U.C. 1980. Additional notes on Platyscapa Motschoulsky (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae). Proc. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wet. Ser. C 83:195–207.

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