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Philocaenus Boučeki (Wiebes)

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

Phagoblastus Boučeki Wiebes 1981. Holotype in The National Natural History Museum, The Netherlands Type locality: Réunion

 

Distribution

 

 Recorded from Réunion and Aldabra Islands, but probably present throughout the range of the host fig (depicted in light green).

Biology

 Host figs: Ficus reflexa reflexa; Ficus reflexa aldabrensis

Reference

 

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.  

 

Wiebes J.T., 1981. The fig insects of La Réunion (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.), 17: 543-570.  

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town)
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