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Crossogaster rastellus 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 rastellus van Noort 1994. Holotype: South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Uganda
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Figs. 62-64. Crossogaster rastellus van Noort, female: 62, head, dorsal view; 63, mandible, ventral view; 64, thorax, dorsal view. Figs. 65-67. Crossogaster rastellus van Noort, male: 65, head, dorsal view; 66, head, ventral view; 67, mandible, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.
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Distribution

 

Crossogaster rastellus_map

Uganda

Biology

Host fig: Ficus "natalensis"

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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