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Otitesella rotunda van Noort

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

OtItesella rotunda van Noort 1997 (in van Noort & Rasplus). Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: South Africa

Distribution

 

Otitesella rotunda_map

Saudi Arabia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa

Biology

 Host: Ficus ingens (Miq.) Miq.

Reference

van Noort, S. & Rasplus, J.Y. 1997. Revision of the otiteselline fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae), I : Otitesella digitata species-group of the Afrotropical region, with a key to Afrotropical species of Otitesella Westwood. African Entomology, 5(1): 125-145.

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