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Comptoniella vannoorti Wiebes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae;Tribe: Otitesellini; Genus: Comptoniella)

Comptoniella vannoorti Wiebes 1992 (in Berg & Wiebes 1992). Holotype: In Type locality: South Africa

Comptoniella_vannoorti

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Comptoniella vannoorti Wiebes ovipositing through fig wall.

Distribution

 

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Namibia and South Africa, but probably also present in the remaining Distributional area (lighter colour) of the host fig (Angola)

Biology

Host fig: Ficus cordata cordata Thunberg

Reference

Berg, C.C. & Wiebes, J.T. 1992. African fig trees and fig wasps. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Amsterdam, 1-298 pp.

Credits

Photographs © 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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