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Philocaenus geminus van Noort

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

Philocaenus geminus van Noort 1994a. Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Uganda

 

Distribution

 

 Philocaenus geminus_map

Uganda

Biology

Ficus "natalensis"

 

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.  

 

Credits

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