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Crossogaster odorans Wiebes

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

Crossogaster odorans Wiebes 1981. Holotype: in The National Natural History Museum, Leiden. Type locality: Zimbabwe

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Figs. 50 & 51. Crossogaster odorans Wiebes, ex F. stuhlmannii Warb., female: 50, head, dorsal view; 51, antenna, antiaxial view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Distribution

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Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Biology

Host figs: Ficus burkei, Ficus stuhlmannii, Ficus craterostoma  

Reference

van Noort S., 1994a. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), III (Crossogaster). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97(1): 83-122.

Credits

Photographs and illustrations © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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