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Philocaenus liodontus (Wiebes)

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

Phagoblastus liodontus Wiebes 1979. Holotype in The National Natural Museum, The Netherlands. Type locality: Gabon

Distribution

 

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Ivory Coast, Gabon, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa

Biology

 Host figs: Ficus natalensis leprieurii (Miq.) Berg, Ficus kamerunensis Mildbr. & Burret, Ficus thonningii Bl., Ficus craterostoma Mildbr. & Burr., Ficus lingua lingua Wild. & Dur., Ficus stuhlmannii Warb.& Ficus burtt-davyi

Reference

 

van Noort, S. 1994c. 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. 

 

Wiebes, J.T. 1979. Fig wasps from Gabon: new species of Agaon (Agaonidae) and Phagoblastus (Torymidae) (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea). Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam. (C). 82:391-400.

Credits

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