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Sycoecus wiebesi van Noort

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

Sycoecus wiebesi van Noort 1993. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Ivory Coast

Distribution

Sycoecus wiebesi_map

Ivory Coast & Gabon

Biology

Host fig: Ficus cyathistipuloides De Wild., Ficus subsagittifolia Berg

Reference

van Noort, S. 1993b. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), II (Sycoecus). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 96(4): 449-475.

Credits

 

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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