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Philocaenus levis (Waterston)

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

Seres levis Waterston 1920. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Uganda

 

Distribution

 

Philocaenus levis_map

Uganda

Biology

Ficus ottoniifolia lucanda (Ficalho) Berg

 

Reference

 

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.  

 

Waterston, J. 1920. Notes on fig insects, including descriptions of three new species and a new blastophagine genus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1920:128-136, 3 figs.  

Credits

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

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