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Philocaenus warei van Noort

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

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

 

Distribution

 

 Philocaenus warei_map

Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Biology

 Host fig: Ficus glumosa Delile

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.  

Credits

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