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Philocaenus silvestrii (Grandi)

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

Crossogaster silvestrii Grandi 1916. Holotype in Instituto di Entomologia 'Giudo Grandi', Bologna Type locality: Senegal

 

Crossogaster atratus Masi 1917 (synonymy by van Noort 1994a)

Distribution

 

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Recorded from Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa, Madagascar, Comoros Islands, Seychelles, Aldabra, but likely to occur throughout the range of the host fig (light green area)

Biology

 Host fig: Ficus lutea Vahl

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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