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Sycoecus oculabulbus van Noort

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily Sycoecinae; Genus: Sycoecus)

Sycoecus oculabulbus van Noort 1993. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Cameroon

Distribution

Sycoecus oculabulbus_map

Cameroon

Biology

Host fig: Ficus cyathistipula pringsheimiana (Braun & Schum.)

Reference

van Noort, S. 1993b. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), II (Sycoecus). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 96(4): 449-475.  

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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