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Philocaenus barbatus Grandi

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

Philocaenus barbatus Grandi 1952. Holotype in Istituto di Entomologia'Giudo Grandi' Bologna. Type locality: Senegal

 

Distribution

 

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Senegal, Ivory Coast

Biology

Host fig: Ficus platyphylla Delile

Reference

 

Grandi, G. 1952. Insetti dei fichi senegalesi. Bollettino dell'Istituto di Entomologia della Universitą degli Studi di Bologna. 19:31-45.

van Noort, S. 1994a. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), IV (Philocaenus, in part). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 97: 311-339.

van Noort, S. 1994b. Systematics of the sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), V (Philocaenus, concluded; generic key; checklist). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97: 341-375.  

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums)

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