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Philotrypesis parca Wiebes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Sycoryctinae; Tribe: Philotrypesini; Genus: Philotrypesis)

Philotrypesis parca Wiebes 1981 (in Bouček, Watsham & Wiebes). Holotype in NCB Naturalis (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie - RMNH) Type locality: Zimbabwe

Distribution

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Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Biology

Host: Ficus burkei (Miq.) Miq.

Reference

Bouček Z., A. Watsham & J.T. Wiebes, 1981. The fig wasp fauna of the receptacles of Ficus thonningii (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie, 124(5): 149-233.

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