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Philocaenus arrujumensis van Noort

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

Philocaenus arrujumensis van Noort 1994. Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Yemen, ar-Rujum

Distribution

 

Yemen

Biology

Host fig: unknown, but hypothesised to be either Ficus populifolia or F. vasta

Reference

 

VAN NOORT, S. & VAN HARTEN, A. 2006. Fig wasp (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Agaonidae, Pteromalidae) species richness of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 22: 449-472.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums)
 

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