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Sycoecus oculabulbus van Noort

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

Sycoecus oculabulbus van Noort 1993. Holotype: in South African Museum, Cape Town. Type locality: Cameroon

Distribution

Sycoecus oculabulbus_map

Cameroon

Biology

Host fig: Ficus cyathistipula pringsheimiana (Braun & Schum.)

Reference

van Noort, S. 1993b. Systematics of the Sycoecine fig wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea, Hymenoptera), II (Sycoecus). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wettenschappen, 96(4): 449-475.  

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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