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Philocaenus medius van Noort

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

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

 

Distribution

 

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Malawi, South Africa

Biology

 Host figs: Ficus natalensis natalensis Hochst.; Ficus burkei Bl.; Ficus psilopoga; F. persicifolia; Ficus petersii

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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