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Otitesella tsamvi Wiebes

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

Otitesella tsamvi Wiebes 1981 (in Bouček, Watsham & Wiebes). Holotype: in The National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Zimbabwe

Distribution

 

Otitesella tsamvi_map

Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Biology

Host: Ficus thonningii Bl

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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