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Crossogaster lurida van Noort

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

Crossogaster lurida van Noort 1994. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: South Africa
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Figs. 35-41. Crossogaster lurida van Noort, female: 35, head, dorsal view; 36, head, ventral view; 37, antenna, antiaxial view; 38, fore tibia; 39, labial palp; 40, maxillary palp; 41, mandible, ventral view; Figs. 42-45. Crossogaster lurida van Noort, male: 42, head, dorsal view; 43, head, ventral view, 44, mandible, dorsal view; 45 antenna, antiaxial view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.
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Distribution

Crossogaster lurida_map

South Africa

Biology

Host fig: Ficus natalensis natalensis Hochst.

Reference

van Noort S., 1994a. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), III (Crossogaster). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 97(1): 83-122.

Credits

Photographs and illustrations © Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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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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