Grandiana wassae Wiebes 

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

Grandiana wassae Wiebes 1961. Holotype: Type locality: Papua New Guinea

Distribution

Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu

Biology

Host: Ficus wassa  

Reference

Wiebes, J.T. 1961. Indomalayan and papuan fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), I. Grandiana wassae nov. gen., nov. spec. (Idarninae) with remarks on the classification of Sycophaginae. Nova Guinea (Zoology). 14:245-252.

Credits

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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