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Ceratosolen niveipes (Girault)

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

Blastophaga niveipes Girault 1915. Holotype in Queensland Museum, Brisbane and South Australian Museum, Adelaide. Type locality: Australia-Northern Territory

Possible synonym of Blastophagus fuscipennis (Bouzek 1988).

Distribution

Australia

Biology

 Host fig: Ficus racemosa

References

 Bouzek, Z. 1988. Australian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. 832 pp. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd; Aberystwyth, Wales. 

Girault, A. A. 1930 June 27. Notes on and descriptionsof chalcid wasps (Chalcididae) in the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum. 3:309-338.

Credits

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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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