(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily Sycoecinae; Genus: Philocaenus)
Philocaenus rotundus van Noort 1994. Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: South Africa.
Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa.
Host fig: Ficus abutilifolia (Miq.) Miq.
van Noort, S. 1994. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), V (Philocaenus, concluded; generic key; checklist). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97(3): 341-375.
Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums).
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