(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily Sycoecinae; Genus: Crossogaster)
Crossogaster michaloudi van Noort 1994. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Gabon
Female
Ivory Coast, Gabon and Uganda, but potentially present throughout the range of the host fig (light green area).
Host fig: Ficus artocarpoides Warb.
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.
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