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Agaon fasciatum Waterston

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Agaonidae; Genus: Agaon)

Agaon fasciatum Waterston, 1914, Agaon tridentatum Joseph 1959. Holotype in The Natural History Museum, London. Type locality: Uganda.

Distribution

 

Agaon fasciatum_map

Cameroon, Gabon, Guinea, Uganda, Zambia.

Biology

Ficus_cyathistipula_cyathistipula

Host fig: Ficus cyathistipula cyathistipula Warb.

References

Waterston, J. 1914. Notes on African Chalcidoidea. I. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 5:249-258.

Credits

Photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA) or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. & Rasplus, JY. 2024. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).

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